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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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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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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I'm still friendly with Dean. He still calls me on the phone from time to time. John Dean was fired and later ended up spending some time in prison for his role in Watergate.
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Public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests on DonorsChoose.org. Requests range from pencils for a poetry writing unit to violins for a school recital to microscope slides for a biology class.
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Before the advent of artificial light, we had 13, 14 hours in bed every night... and so what we experience now is about a 40% contraction of how we used to sleep, and I for one am glad of that - I don't want to spend 13 hours in bed.
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Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different.
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I'm not coming back to play.
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Such is the power of death - to strip away breath and transform a person into an airy abstraction.
