Cees Nooteboom Quotes
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
Fatima Sana Shaikh
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A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.
Gary Zukav
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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
A. S. Byatt
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The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know - people live their life like that, but I don't know how they look back and feel good about themselves.
Gavin Newsom
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I understood from an early age what being competitive means.
Tamara Ecclestone
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When I came to MSNBC, its identity as the place for politics was growing.
Tamron Hall
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
Kate Morton
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Once Clinton won, I started picking on him.
Walt Handelsman
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The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.
Carl Jung
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All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles.Who will rule,Who will lead,Who will define,refine,confine,design,Who will dominate.All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles, And mostare no more intellectualthan two ramsknocking their heads together.
Octavia E. Butler
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The law of small numbers is not really a law. It is a sarcastic name describing the misguided attempt to apply the law of large numbers when the numbers aren't large.
Leonard Mlodinow
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Men are made of the dust of the earth.
Cormac McCarthy
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I think it was a gift. For that performance, silver is generous.
Sasha Cohen
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I have no interest in the trappings of power.
Enda Kenny
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The fundamental values of a true community are elsewhere: in love, poetry, disinterested thought, the free use of the imagination, the pursuit of non-utilitarian activities, the production of non-profitmaking goods, the employment of non-consumable wealth - here are the sustaining values of a living culture.
Lewis Mumford
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When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.
Lactantius
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Man is a sad mammal that combs its hair.
Cees Nooteboom
