Edgar Snow Quotes
It is impossible not to recognise the Long March as one of the great triumphs of men against odds and men against nature. While the Red Army was unquestionably in forced retreat, its toughened veterans reached their planned objective with moral and political will as strong as ever... Their conviction had helped turn what might have been a terrible defeat into an arrival in triumph.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Growing up, watching the Premier League as far back as I can remember, feeling the trophy and having the medal around my neck was an unbelievable feeling.
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If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.
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My mantra is simple: work gets you work, and good work gets you good work.
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For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.
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It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.
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When I won't have work, say, after seven or eight years, or when I retire, I can't imagine leaving Hyderabad, because I love this city that much.
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Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.
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My parents are OK with me wearing a small heel, up to 1.5 inches high. Heels give me height when I wear such long dresses. For me, they complete the outfit.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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Nature knows best.
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I've been playing tennis, and just whatever sport is in front of me I will do.
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When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing.
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I am repelled by those who voice the word 'nature', without having any trace of it in their hearts.
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It is impossible not to recognise the Long March as one of the great triumphs of men against odds and men against nature. While the Red Army was unquestionably in forced retreat, its toughened veterans reached their planned objective with moral and political will as strong as ever... Their conviction had helped turn what might have been a terrible defeat into an arrival in triumph.
