Christina Stead Quotes
Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.
Christina Stead
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It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.
N. Murray Edwards
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
Vikram Seth
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
Samuel Barnett
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
Magdi Yacoub
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We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.
Manmohan Singh
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
Victoria de los Angeles
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You never know how long a player has left, especially with strikers. Once you turn 30, as a striker, you are usually on the way down, and playing from the age of 16, at such a high level, has to take its toll.
Gary Lineker
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
Felicity Huffman
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
Iris Chang
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I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.
Aby Rosen
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
Haile Gebrselassie
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
Fat Joe
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Dividing everybody into genders and sexuality and races and religions, and I think it's important to have films out there, to have discussions out there which really try to get to grips with where that kind of thing can lead.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
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For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life.
Ian Bogost
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People are intrigued but also scared about things that are uneasy.
Julia Garner
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In 2011, General Alston, four-star commander in Iraq, recommended to the President, a force level of over 20,000. The President rejected it and pulled out all the forces with what is now known as a disastrous consequence in Syria.
Jack Keane
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Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.
Christina Stead
