Esme Raji Codell Quotes
The goal is not necessarily to succeed but to keep trying, to be the kind of person who has ideas and see them through.
Esme Raji Codell
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My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful.
Quentin Bryce
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In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.
Victor Pinchuk
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
Walter Kirn
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I don't plan my roles or my films.
Manju Warrier
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Dan Brown is a character from 'Foucault's Pendulum!' I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.
Umberto Eco
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Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.
Nancy Pearcey
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I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.
Camila Alves
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As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.
Lady Gregory
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The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.
Wael Ghonim
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Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the suppression of the bad stuff.
Jackson Katz
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If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?
Randall Terry
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Claghorn had long insisted that no human condition endured forever, with the corollary that the more complicated such a condition, the greater its susceptibility to change.
Jack Vance
