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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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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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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We're a nation of liars. But I mean that in the kindest sense.
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My Chicago is beautiful and diverse. It was able to give me all parts of the world all in one.
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I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.
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The Volkswagen Group offers the world's largest low-CO2 fleet.
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'Death Of A Salesman' is a great acting job.
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The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.
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What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they receive the money; in so far as they succeed, even to a moderate extent, the money is taken away.
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At home, I'm just Amy, but in India, I get mobbed.
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There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.
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Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?
