Anna Banks Quotes
I wonder how many tears the ocean has swallowed, how much of the ocean is actually made of tears.
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The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
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If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.
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I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.
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Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
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My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.
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The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.
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I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.
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Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
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America isn’t afraid to compete.
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Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.
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I write in the mornings, two or three hours every day, and then at least four times a week I play in a duplicate game at a bridge club. I try to go to tournaments three, four, or five times a year.
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I wonder how many tears the ocean has swallowed, how much of the ocean is actually made of tears.
