Vartan Gregorian Quotes
The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and their own thirst for knowledge, and in the process, to achieve their own independence of mind and spirit.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
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I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.
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Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.
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Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.
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In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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I was brought up to believe I could achieve anything. My mother instilled in me the belief that there was always something great coming. For example, even though I'm afraid of flying, I always think the plane can't crash because there are so many better things still to come.
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I don't think that books are wondrous, magical things that come from nowhere. It's important that a book has clues about where and how it was written.
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I try to stay hydrated!
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Our prayer is not simply, ‘Dear God, please send me a better job,’ but, ‘Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind.
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War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign enemies.
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The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and their own thirst for knowledge, and in the process, to achieve their own independence of mind and spirit.
