Arika Okrent Quotes
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I would say that Juventus is a myth not only in Italy, because it's the most loved team in Italy, but also around the world. And it has been in my family since birth.
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A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.
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Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.
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'Menace II Society' itself was a groundbreaking film. It's definitely going to go in the vaults of classics in all of cinema. The Hughes Brothers created an incredible project. Just gave the world something a little different than what we had seen in previous films in that same genre.
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I weave the company into what we laughingly call 'Jack's novel.' I write this novel for them about who they are and what's going on in their world. When I had 90 people in 'Porgy and Bess,' each had a story, history and family relationship.
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Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III.
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In 2007, my life changed forever. I signed on 'Tashan,' a full-on glamorous masala movie, with two of the hottest and fittest actors around: Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan. And me, rising out of the sea like a Bond girl, wearing nothing but a green bikini. I had nightmares of how my love handles would be on display for the whole world to see.
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Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.
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A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
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Music will save the world.
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Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.
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Ascetic Christianity called the world evil and left it. Humanity is waiting for a revolutionary Christianity which will call the world evil and change it.
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Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.
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So if you got your chrome, you need to stay in the zone And get a vest for your mutha fuckin dome Cause it's on like a dog with out his bone I'm in it to win it and No Limit is my home (for life for life).
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I'm always the last person in the world who would ever try to predict a trend.
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I have visited the cities and towns across America and seen the devastation caused by the trade policies of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton supported Bill Clinton's disastrous NAFTA, just like she supported China's entrance into the World Trade Organization.
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That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.
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I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who’d rather avoid them.
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Labourers had diminished, game had tripled. The landlord was no more necessary to agriculture than a gold chain to a watch.
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I knew it was happening, but I never paid much attention to it . . . just to the passage of time. Something new always slowly changes right in front of your eyes - it just happens.
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What kind of a world do we live in that has room for dog yoga but not for Esperanto?
