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 -
My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
K. D. Lang
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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 -
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
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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 -
It might not be pretty, but the A-10 is our most capable close air-support aircraft, and its arrival on the battlefield signals survival for our troops and annihilation for our enemies.
Martha McSally
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I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
Barbra Streisand -
I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.
Abigail Breslin -
Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.
Daisy Bates -
Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a vehicle for social connections, discussions and ideas.
Youssou N'Dour -
Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.
Joanna Lumley -
Nothing seduces vanity like the word "help".
Connie Brockway