Nicholas A. Basbanes Quotes
A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print, and dead men's sentiments!
Nicholas A. Basbanes
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
Dana Perino
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
Kalpana Chawla
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I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.
Karen Hughes
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When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.
J. B. Pritzker
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As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, 'I don't want to become like Bruce Lee's son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.' I just think my son is too lazy.
Jackie Chan
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That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.
Iain Duncan Smith
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If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
Yann Martel
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When I was 11 I became a massive fan of The Monkees. We had a so-called 'band' of kids on my street and we'd go along to people's houses and mime to Monkees records.
Gary Numan
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Rape is an outrage that cannot be tolerated in a civilized society. Yet feminism, which has waged a crusade for rape to be taken more seriously, has put young women in danger by hiding the truth about sex from them.
Camille Paglia
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To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.
Barbara W. Tuchman
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Woo ah, mercy mercy me.Ah things ain't what they used to be, no no.Where did all the blue skies go?
Marvin Gaye
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Entrepreneurs, guys that start businesses, grow with them. It's more painful than it would appear.
Les Wexner
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I remember being really poor until I got my first $250,000 check from Faberge. That was pretty nice; I put it in the bank, and from that moment on, there seemed to be a lot of champagne and limousines in my life.
Margaux Hemingway
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If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.
Pierre Bourdieu
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There is, of course, provision for consultation of the record by the usual scheme of indexing. If the user wishes to consult a certain book, he taps its code on the keyboard, and the title page of the book promptly appears before him, projected onto one of his viewing positions.
Vannevar Bush
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A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print, and dead men's sentiments!
Nicholas A. Basbanes
