Anna Funder Quotes
Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?
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Obviously, I am a huge Matt Morrison fan, and I am a big Lea Michele fan because I know those guys from way back.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve.
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The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.
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The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
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The Internet seems to have killed American fashion in the sense that everybody has good style, but they also look vaguely the same.
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Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!
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Be still, sad heart, and cease repining;Behind the clouds the sun is shining;Thy fate is the common fate of all,Into each life some rain must fall,Some days must be dark and dreary.
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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country, than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.
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A cruise missile is more important than Head Start.
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'Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician.
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I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.
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The easiest way to figure out who the customer is in an online space is to figure out who is paying for the thing. Usually, the people paying are the customers. So on Facebook, the people paying are marketers. That makes them the customers. And it means we are the product being delivered to those customers.
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The bulk of my learning - if I may call it such - has come within the past three months, after I became a part of the fragile body of patients who make up an AIDS hospice. Here, surrounded by teams of supportive nurses, attentive doctors, and interns, one gently comes upon his own strengths and shortcomings.
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How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future?
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Any sort of bullying is a terrible thing, but I think online bullying is so much worse because it's psychological bullying.
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I crave a cone of silence every once in while.
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There is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. Think about it.
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Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?
