Alice Mattison Quotes
We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.
Alice Mattison
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I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know is that we can draw a line to an issue that can conserve what we already have and what's left in a way that we can actually breathe the air, drink the water, actually grow things in soil - that matters in a real, practical way.
Maggie Q
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
Samantha Barks
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
T. Boone Pickens
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I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
Rachael Ray
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When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.
Caleb Cushing
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I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.
Kate Smith
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My parents don't have any showbusiness links. They are so far away from it.
Sam Claflin
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I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.
Nancy Grace
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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Human nature is accused of much more selfishness than it really has ; a thousand kindly emotions break in upon and redeem our daily and interested life.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
Ralph Ellison
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I know a bit about selling books, and you need a good title - a catchy concoction with a little Cajun spice, something that will make folks stop in the aisles, turn away from the Grisham novels and the latest crazy diet fad, and pick up your masterpiece.
James Carville
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One of the key things about the entitlement and power of patriarchy, but also within feminism, is not that it's wilful nastiness. But you can't ask for permission. You can negotiate and you can bring people on board and you can build a base but you can't expect for it to be given.
Rachel Holmes
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Tattoos, for me, are like a timeline of my life. I could look at a certain tattoo, and it reminds of me of a certain time in my life and why I got that tattoo.
Micheal Ray Stevenson
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There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.
George Borrow
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I work in musical theater because people keep writing quality stories in the genre, and I'm really all about investing in a piece that says something about our current time, that is, a reflection on who we are today.
Brandon Victor Dixon
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We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.
Alice Mattison
