Ella Leya Quotes
That evening, I played piano for ten thousand barely-out-of-their-teens boys who filled the Kabul stadium. Boys with pimples and crew cuts in oversized military uniforms, holding on to their toy guns. Toy guns that killed. I played as if there was no tomorrow. Because for many of them there wouldn’t be, other than inside a coffin draped with a Soviet flag.
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I get depressed at airports.
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I realized that you didn't have to make self-deprecating remarks or turn yourself into the butt of some unspoken joke. I also discovered that being big didn't deter possible suitors.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
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Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.
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The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.
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If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
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If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
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Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?
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I was put on a pony as a kid at some birthday party when you're all led around.
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I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.
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When you look at Washington, it's really not that big. And its economy is completely dependent on those two companies. When they're doing well, the whole state does all right, but when they're down, there's nothing to fall back on.
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We came to recognize that our initial thinking about the keys to educational reform was wrong. The key variables weren't pedagogical. They weren't financial. They weren't curricular. They weren't research. They weren't any of the usual things we've always talked about as the engines of change. The variables were deeply emotional and cultural.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love.
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If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show, we've got a really big problem.
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That evening, I played piano for ten thousand barely-out-of-their-teens boys who filled the Kabul stadium. Boys with pimples and crew cuts in oversized military uniforms, holding on to their toy guns. Toy guns that killed. I played as if there was no tomorrow. Because for many of them there wouldn’t be, other than inside a coffin draped with a Soviet flag.
