Arne Garborg Quotes
It is said that for money you can have everything, but you cannot. You can buy food, but not appetite... fun, but not joy; acquaintances, but not friends; leisure, but not peace. You can have the husk of everything for money, but not the kernel.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
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When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
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It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
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When the Americans were trying to conquer the Navajos, they felt this need to capture Canyon de Chelly like it was the Navajo capital. It was a meeting place and a sanctuary of last refuge. To control Canyon de Chelly was to control the Navajo people.
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Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order.
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I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too.
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That's what everybody remembers. They don't remember how many medals I won in my career. They remember the 10s.
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Falling down became second nature and it really didn't bother me.
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The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.
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I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.
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The old world of England was picturesque and safe in a way that L.A. wasn't, but it was so amazingly socially cruel. I had never experienced that in America - never in school, nowhere.
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Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
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Je est un autre.
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I was 85 lbs. at my 2000 homecoming dance. But I wanted my collarbones and hip bones to show more. I'd feel my hip bones to make sure they were out. If not, I had more weight to lose. I lost my period until I was 17. I loved that. It meant I wasn't healthy, and I didn't want to be healthy.
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At Mardi Gras, the different tribes will basically play war games, and so my brother is what you call a Flag Boy, which is more of less like a tribe's diplomat. He carries the game's standard and is really the line of where the game starts.
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I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.
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I have an amazing social media manager, Allison Peters, who is one of my closest friends since childhood.
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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'The Philadelphia Story' is one of my favorite movies.
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It is said that for money you can have everything, but you cannot. You can buy food, but not appetite... fun, but not joy; acquaintances, but not friends; leisure, but not peace. You can have the husk of everything for money, but not the kernel.
