Monica Ali Quotes
I'm very eclectic in my music tastes - anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh.
Monica Ali
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There are so many kids in this world, and in this country, that need homes. And so we're perfectly content to look into adoption one day, if for some reason we aren't able to have a biological child.
Lisa Ling
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I told the guys that something good would come of this. We worked our butts off.
Eddie Charles Jones
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Look at South Africa, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. They still have many problems, setbacks as well as breakthroughs, but basically changes have happened that were considered unthinkable a decade ago.
Dalai Lama
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The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.
Tony Kushner
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Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one another, who have enabled us to understand that we all, from every part of the world, live in one world.
Paul Auster
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It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.
Euripides
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Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.
Epictetus
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A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.
William Ellery Channing
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Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.
Honore de Balzac
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Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.
William Feather
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Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.
Lois Wyse
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To be a poet is to have an appetite for a certain anxiety which, when tasted among the swirling sum of things existent or forfeit, causes, as the taste dies, joy.
Rene Char