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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Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there’s a reason it gets beaten down. Usually, we don’t like it very much.
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The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong through resistance. . .We are forced to recognize that this great universal necessity for struggle must have a definite and useful purpose. That purpose is to force the individual to sharpen his wits, arouse his enthusiasm, build up his spirit of faith, gain definiteness of purpose, develop his power of will, and inspire his faculty of imagination to give him new uses for old ideas and concepts. . .
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Honor your father and mother (this is the first commandment with a promise),.4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
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I want my mind to be a sail, susceptible to any breeze that might be blowing across the lake of consciousness.
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I always struggle auditioning, actually, because I'm so obsessed with era-appropriate clothing.
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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.
