Edmund de Waal Quotes
Kövecses radiated the sense of self-sufficiency that comes about when there are lots of children in a big house.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
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Bullies always have another target.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
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The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.
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My parents had normal jobs, and I didn't just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn't have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, 'I have to be able to sing.'
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A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.
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They wouldn't let me into Germany from 1998-2000 because I bumped into the chancellor's daughter on my skateboard.
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One thing that stays the same is my passion for music. Other than that, I've become more dedicated. I think that I really work much harder than I ever did when I first started at my craft; I'm more dedicated, and I have become a perfectionist.
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Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.
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I like every girl. Every kind of girl that there is, I like.
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Only the shallow know themselves.
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I never knew what a reporter looked like.
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I'm a big fan of the DEA.
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Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.
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When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong.
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Any concerns that Romney will adopt McCain's milquetoast campaign model are quickly diminishing.
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Kövecses radiated the sense of self-sufficiency that comes about when there are lots of children in a big house.
