Anita Rau Badami Quotes
Such is the power of death - to strip away breath and transform a person into an airy abstraction.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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I'm not a fan of people romanticizing their loved ones in death.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
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I'm not really the type of person who wears my heart on my sleeve. I keep everything inside.
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I'm not the type of person who thinks up a joke and has to tell everyone.
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In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
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I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
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For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
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As a person of color from the South, San Francisco was the first city that really made me feel like an other.
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I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died.
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As an Egyptian, I was always frustrated, just like many young Egyptians, of the situation in the country. And to a large extent, we didn't know what could we do. And looking at Khaled's photo after his death; basically I just felt that we are all Khaled Said.
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I'm the kind of person who always wants more.
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A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.
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I'm the laziest person I know.
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If there is a heaven, I'm sure Rock Hudson is there because he was such a kind person.
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There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.
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One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'
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Intret amicitiae nomine tectus amor.
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Such is the power of death - to strip away breath and transform a person into an airy abstraction.
