Langston Hughes Quotes
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I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.
Tammy Baldwin -
I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
Viggo Mortensen -
I'm on the road earning my money. I didn't get any million pound record deals. Not unless you're Jedward! I'm doing very well, but I still have a mortgage to pay off. So I'm on the road.
Imelda May -
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
S. J. Perelman -
Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
Ibrahim Rugova
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Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG.
Sam Kean -
My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
Dane Cook -
If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.
Ina Garten -
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
Rachel Johnson -
As long as the dollar remains in high esteem as a trade currency, America can continue to spend more than it earns. But when the day arrives - as it certainly must - when the dollar tumbles and foreigners no longer want it, the free ride will be over.
G. Edward Griffin -
Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.
Victor Cruz
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'Idol' was groundbreaking television. I am very fortunate to have won the show at the time. 'Idol' changed my life, and I am thankful.
Taylor Hicks -
If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
Wendell Willkie -
I tell fans who ask me why I'm not doing comedy anymore that I'm a different person. I've grown and I've matured. I've made a transition to where I really want to be.
Flip Wilson -
You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
Gabriel Iglesias -
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
Karl Popper -
People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.
Naftali Bennett
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I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.
Nargis Fakhri -
I never want to sound preachy about youth and feminism, but I feel like there aren't enough young people coming out about their concerns and opinions.
Eden Sher -
All that kept her from breaking was that it was not an image of strength that was leaving her; she would be just as strong without him.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
Rudyard Kipling -
Taking privacy cues from the federal government is - to say the least - ironic, considering today's Orwellian level of surveillance. At virtually any given time outside of one's own home, an American citizen can reasonably assume his movements and actions are being monitored by something, by somebody, somewhere.
Bob Barr -
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
Langston Hughes