Elizabeth Wein Quotes
It’s not desperation—there is something inhuman in it. That is what I find so creepy. Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing—and the insane mind behind it just urges us all on and on to more destruction. And we all keep playing.
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Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.
Sachin Tendulkar
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I just love playing in major championships.
Inbee Park
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I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives... it's not me and it's not my look.
Rachelle Lefevre
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Yes, I love playing Mom.
Vicki Lawrence
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My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.
Ed Belfour
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I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
Jackson Browne
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Since Israel is a democratic state surrounded by essentially undemocratic states which have sworn her destruction, those interested in democracy everywhere must support Israel's existence.
Bayard Rustin
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I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates.
Tad Williams
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My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.
Ted Danson
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I would like people to know me for who I am, especially since I think people have a very skewed image of me. I was playing a lot of cute characters, a lot of little girls; I was objectified. And I don't want people to think of me as that because it's not who I am, and because I've seen a lot of hostility towards that image.
Mara Wilson
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I learned a lot from playing those late-night, 1-to-4 A.M. gigs with my band, and playing when no one was listening.
Rachel Platten
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I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.
Young Buck
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The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.
Aaron Klein
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Anytime you're playing a major, the last four or five holes, it's not going to be easy. It's never a guarantee. It's never easy.
Dustin Johnson
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We've got a lot more Polynesians playing rugby in Australia now.
Eddie Charles Jones
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(The fielders are) just sitting out there playing jacks on the carpet, and the next thing you know the ball gets hit to them, and they can't get to it because you've put them to sleep.
Joe Mays
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After four years since the beginning of the tragedy in the Balkans, we have to recognize the painful fact that this conflict has brought nothing but grief, suffering and destruction, ... There have been no winners in this war, nor could there have been any. Everyone has lost -- the Serbs, the Croats, the Muslims and Europe as a whole.
Igor Ivanov
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Official brutality, which characterizes boot camps in America, is inhuman and does not work.
Jack Straw
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One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.
T. C. Boyle
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Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.
Albert Einstein
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It’s not desperation—there is something inhuman in it. That is what I find so creepy. Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing—and the insane mind behind it just urges us all on and on to more destruction. And we all keep playing.
Elizabeth Wein