Samantha Shannon Quotes
I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination.Samantha Shannon
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
Gary Lineker -
The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts.
Jack Welch -
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
Victor Borge -
Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
Nancy Pelosi -
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
W. Clement Stone -
There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
Jack Youngblood
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When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
Abbe Pierre -
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel Johnson -
I never feel there's anything I can't do.
Daniel Clowes -
I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
Vijender Singh -
I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
Laura Marling -
It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
Usain Bolt
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
C. L. R. James -
It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
Fran Drescher -
I don't drink tea or coffee. I'm like a child: I like fruit juices and sodas and creamy hot chocolate.
Talulah Riley -
To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
Rand Paul -
Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
Kate Thompson -
The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
Jack Schwartz
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My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.
Robert Vaughn -
Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.
Ida Tarbell -
Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.
Mark Udall -
America does not fight for land, glory or riches.
Virginia Foxx -
I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination.
Samantha Shannon