Allan Border Quotes
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I luckily had a very charming, lovable mom who I think everybody could see bits and pieces of their mom in.
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Let us have peace.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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It's difficult when you want it all.
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In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. You buy this for 3,000 rupees, it'll become 30,000 in two months.
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Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
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From the days of Cain and Abel, we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn't take away our freedoms.
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My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.
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I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside the writer's head, to learn something we didn't know before.
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I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.
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Nothing fires me up like losing. It certainly makes you want to go that extra bit.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.
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Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.
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I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.
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And I think that it's - the military has actually made improvements, so people are considering post-traumatic stress disorder as, at the least, a possible psychological problem. You know, when I was in Vietnam, it was just considered malingering. And we're making progress.
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People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.
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There are huge challenges ahead for this country but also huge opportunities. We can make this country stronger and fairer.
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There is nothing worse than a politician that gets defensive and starts attacking the media - and it always looks bad for the politician, because you sign up for this. You live by the sword, you die by the sword.
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Looking at the media today, I'm quite ashamed of myself, of things I've participated in. Everything is marketed to sex and gossip and it's just a shame that those are the things at the forefront, on people's minds, those are the things that make you popular, what you have on or how little you have on and it has nothing to do with music, nothing to do with sports it has nothing to do with the things so many communities put their faith in. It's just a sad place to be.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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I never had planned for my life and my career.
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I am not talking to anyone in the British media. They are all pricks.
