Edmund de Waal Quotes
With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.
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I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.
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The 'People's Budget' rewards hard work and invests in our country. It ensures that everyone has an opportunity to get a good education, find a good job, live in a safe and secure home, put food on the table, have affordable health care, save for retirement, and maybe have a little left over.
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Bad news on the doorstep;I couldn’t take one more step
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Mad Eye' Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: "Not nice," he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no counter curse. There's no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he's sitting right in front of me.
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This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires. Some people are born and kept living just to come to this.
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There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.
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Angels are winged with God's power.
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I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.
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I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do.
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There's something about that suit, he'll feel like, 'Whoa,' he'll feel like a different person, and that's what it's about.
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The gates made of light swing open. You see in.
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Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! . . . The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far without jamming for more than a few months at a time, and then only in places, is that it has not yet succeeded in making a conquest of human nature so complete that everybody acts on strictly business principles.
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Steinberg occupies a position that is very dear to those of us who've held it over the years: sports columnist at The Post. If all he wants to do is be popular--and I think Dan is better than that--then the readers of The Washington Post sports section won't be very well served. Telling readers how great they are as sports fans was never one of my priorities. The only thing worse than people who can't stand to hear an unpopular or unflattering opinion is those that are too afraid to state one.
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Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.
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I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.
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With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.
