Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Quotes
If we want world peace, we must break the vicious circle of violence and reprisal, of an eye for an eye, of endless hate.Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln -
I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
Rachel Cusk -
Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson -
I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
Dan Fogelberg -
I don't want to lose what I've won.
Rafael dos Anjos -
I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
Natasha Lyonne
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California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.
Frances Beinecke -
I remember speaking to a sheik who came back into the political system in late 2008, laid down his arms. His troops became part of the Sons of Iraq, the so-called Sunni Awakening.
Jack Keane -
If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
S. Jay Olshansky -
It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.
Oliver Stone -
Many ingredients are called 'earthy,' but none comes as close to fitting the bill as buckwheat. I'm mildly obsessed with the stuff.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.
Karin Slaughter
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Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.
Camille Paglia -
The raw materials of story are the raw materials of all human cultures. Story deals with the same questions as theology, philosophy, psychology. It is concerned with polarities: love and hate, birth and death, joy and sorrow, loss and recovery.
Lloyd Alexander -
It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.
Francis Bacon -
I love playing a character that eats on television. It's so fun.
Kether Donohue -
I never wanted to be a pop star.
Anne Stevenson -
I think, at the end of the day, when you hear the same voice all the time, it goes in one ear and out the other when you're a player.
Jerry West
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I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people.
Joe Morgan -
I didn't have my first child until I was 40. I actually learned about motherhood from management.
Carol Bartz -
I don't blame Le Havre. Back then, I wasn't an easy person to handle. I was always one of the first to mess around. So there were a lot of reasons why my adventure stopped at that point.
Dimitri Payet -
Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice.
William Hazlitt -
I don't go to things because I want to see violence, I go to things because I want to see them handled well.
Jhonen Vasquez -
If we want world peace, we must break the vicious circle of violence and reprisal, of an eye for an eye, of endless hate.
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas