Bridget Everett Quotes
I think when you slow Enrique Iglesias down and really listen to what he's saying, it's an explosion of bad taste.
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
Vernon Howard
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We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.
Umberto Eco
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Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.
Ban Ki-moon
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I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
Mads Mikkelsen
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I'm only a human being.
Wayne Rooney
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The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.
Salman Rushdie
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Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.
Nathan Myhrvold
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The weight is just a tool. Do you focus on the hammer or the nail? You better focus on the thing you're trying to hit.
Kai Greene
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I told the guys that something good would come of this. We worked our butts off.
Eddie Charles Jones
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If you are worried or afraid of anything, there is something in your mental attitude that needs correction.
Napoleon Hill
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The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.
Tony Kushner
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The fullness of life comes from an identity built on giving and on joy.
Mary Pipher
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Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one another, who have enabled us to understand that we all, from every part of the world, live in one world.
Paul Auster
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People are sheepish when they approach me.
Ryan Phillippe
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It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.
Euripides
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The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by ties of love, then the wider circle of fellow-townsmen, fellow-countrymen, or fellow-men. To be of service is a solid foundation for contentment in this world.
Charles William Eliot
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She was old too, when she went to school they didn't have history.
Jack Roy
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In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.
Wendy Cope