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 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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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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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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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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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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For better or for worse, I just have to be on tour for some portion of the year. But it's not easy, you know. It's not easy on the people you love, and I understand when people look at this life and say this isn't sustainable.
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Black people have been fighting for basic citizenship rights since the inception of the country.
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'Brotherhood: Homage to Claudius Ptolemy'
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Auden is able to set up a We (whom he identifies himself with-rejection loves company) in opposition to the enemy They...
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Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.
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Hospitality exists when you believe that the other person is on your side.
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I rely on myself very much. I just think that you have an instinct and you go with it. Especially when it comes to deal-making and buying things.
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The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.
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Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.
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I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.
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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.
