Bette Lord Quotes
Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.
Bette Lord
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The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.
Vicente del Bosque
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If I'm so popular, why did they replace me with Tommy Thayer?
Ace Frehley
Kiss
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Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Ordinary Geiger counters, worn on belt clips and resembling pagers, have been in use by the U.S. Customs Service for years.
Barton Gellman
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
Washed Out
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I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.
Dana Spiotta
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The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.
Carl Levin
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I wanted to write a food book, but I'm not a chef or an expert on culinary matters, to put it mildly.
Kate Christensen
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I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.
Ian Rankin
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For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.
Karrine Steffans
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I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.
Upamanyu Chatterjee
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When a person applies enthusiasm to his job, the job will itself become alive with exciting new possibilities.
Norman Vincent Peale
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The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and Prejudice. Vice is Error, Confusion, and false Reasoning; and all Truth is more or less opposite to it. Besides, Mathematical Studies may serve for a pleasant Entertainment for those Hours which young Men are apt to throw away upon their Vices; the Delightfulness of them being such as to make Solitude not only easy, but desirable.
John Arbuthnot
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Heresy is the lifeblood of religions. It is faith that begets heresies. There are no heresies in a dead religion.
Andre Suares
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To me, it’s encounters that matter, pictures are much less important.
Anders Petersen
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Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner.
Ravi Shankar
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Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.
Bette Lord
