Raymond Duncan Quotes
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
Edmund White -
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
Abraham Lincoln -
I travel a lot, and that makes it harder to date, but it also opens up opportunities for me to meet people where I wouldn't normally meet them.
Cameron Dallas -
Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
Vicente Fox -
The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
Umberto Eco -
I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
Mahershala Ali
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I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.
Ian Hart -
Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.
Sam Harris -
I always dreamed of going to the Olympics. To be going to the Games in your own country is another thing; to do it as a potential medallist is another thing again.
Hannah Mills -
Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.
Dada Vaswani -
London is my home. I miss my family so much; it's hard being away. And I miss salt and vinegar crisps. And Marmite. And good fudge. Oh my God. Clotted cream fudge.
Felicity Jones -
I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But Valentine's Day leaves me cold.
Nancy Gibbs
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If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
Abraham Lincoln -
A friend of mine had this great theory about the Teletubbies, that it's preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. That's why the scenery is so flat.
Rachel McAdams -
I have a lot of fears that normal people have.
Felix Baumgartner -
I am just your everyday, average girl. I live by the beach. I wear flip flops. I don't wear make-up. I go to the gym.
A. J. Cook -
A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration.
Viktor Orban -
When investors, particularly investment bankers, talk about splitting up companies, there's a lot of discussion about multiple expansion, and the reality is multiple expansion is an outcome, not a strategy.
Irene Rosenfeld
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Economic growth creates jobs, and countries grow when they educate their people and pursue policies that encourage households to save, existing businesses to invest, and entrepreneurs to innovate and create new markets.
Peter Blair Henry -
It doesn't matter that I didn't win a trophy because I did it my way and I lived the dream.
Alan Shearer -
My mom has never been a big meddler and isn't, like, extremely opinionated or at least just doesn't voice it to me. She's sort of let me come into my own by myself, and I think that's just a testament to what my parents did in terms of raising us.
Mandy Moore -
I think a woman looks best in a sari.
Kareena Kapoor Khan -
A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.
Raymond Duncan