Connie Brockway Quotes
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
Tawni O'Dell -
Winners do what losers don't want to do.
Gary Busey -
The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
Oliver Tambo -
A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
Daniel Cormier -
I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
Mads Mikkelsen -
The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
Otto Weininger
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
K. D. Lang -
I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.
K. Flay -
I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether it's Cairo or Baghdad, you sit there and you think, 'This river has flown here for thousands of years.' There are magical moments in these places.
Zaha Hadid -
I was lucky enough to be able to grow and mature in a natural way as an actress.
Kate Burton -
The Church had its own law code and its own courts of law which were supreme over the clergy, and had large rights of jurisdiction even over the laity, so that it could develop and give effect to its own ideas of law and right.
Walter Rauschenbusch -
It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable.
Isaac Asimov
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The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd, Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep, They told their comrades, and to Sleep return'd.
Omar Khayyam -
I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.
Mavis Staples -
I can't tell a story about a working-class family on a premium channel that you have to pay to get.
Cristela Alonzo -
There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.
Bernardo Bertolucci -
We have to ask if it is once again the summer of 1914. Small acts of terror in the Middle East, in South Asia, could lead to cataclysm as they did in Sarajevo.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
The debut film came much easier to me than it would have if I was an outsider.
Dulquer Salmaan
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I had been thinking about social awkwardness and about people you meet who are not bad people - there is nothing wrong with them, but they are just a little bit awkward, and it makes you feel uncomfortable, and it makes you want to bring the encounter to an end. I thought, 'Is there a reason for that? What has contributed to their demeanour?'
Gail Honeyman -
I've always had loads of teddy bears.
Ella McMahon -
I was raised in Kenya, and I always wanted to be an actor from when I was really, really little, but the first time I thought it was something that I could make a career of was when I watched 'The Color Purple.' I think I was nine, maybe, and I saw people that looked like me - Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah.
Lupita Nyong'o -
Government staff will be on hand at UK airports ready to assist and we’re working with airline, train and bus operators to help people find alternative ways home.
Grant Shapps -
Nothing seduces vanity like the word "help".
Connie Brockway