Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it.
Quentin Bryce -
I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
Edan Lepucki -
Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
Ram Dass -
What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
Yahya Jammeh -
It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
Garth Brooks -
The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
Katee Sackhoff
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Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.
Ha-Joon Chang -
You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
Gary Locke -
My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
Ram Kapoor -
I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
Dacre Montgomery -
Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.
Patricia Heaton
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
M. H. Abrams -
I do have the sense that, although there may be no one way to write a novel, there are many novelists who are in fact part of some sort of larger literary community, whether in the form of a writing group or an MFA program, to name two of the more common forms.
Hanya Yanagihara -
I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
Damien Rice -
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving -
I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
L. J. Smith -
The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.
Manfred von Richthofen
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.
George Bernard Shaw -
You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
Fran Tarkenton -
Capitalism gives all of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and hang on to it.
Al Capone -
Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.
Pat Metheny -
In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.
Mahatma Gandhi