J. A. Konrath Quotes
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
Felix Dennis -
If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.
Manny Pacquiao -
The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
Camryn Manheim -
I would not, under any circumstances, try to impose my personal faith and belief on the rest of the country. I don't think that's right. I don't think that's appropriate. But freedom of religion doesn't mean freedom from religion. And I think that anything we can do to promote the idea that people should express their faith is a good thing.
Sam Brownback -
I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
Yehuda Amichai -
If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.
Victoria Osteen
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
P. J. O'Rourke -
There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.
Kajal Aggarwal -
In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
Randy Lerner -
Language does not make one an elite.
Irrfan Khan -
Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
Abbi Jacobson -
For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.
Fernando Alonso
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My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.
Mandy Moore -
My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.
Zinedine Zidane -
What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?
T. C. Boyle -
I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.
Lady Gaga -
I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.
Zubin Mehta -
I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
Hanif Kureishi
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If there's one man in the world who could play two men, it would be Tiger. In my mind, Furyk is going to play.
Gary Player -
People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.
Ramez Naam -
I had a pretty regular childhood, with a rad mum who taught me to love reading and thinking and laughing, and as far as I was concerned a regular dad who drove trucks for a living and did radio interviews on weekends and got stopped in the street a lot when we went out.
Brooke Fraser Hillsong Worship -
And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
Samantha Smith -
My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity.
Namie Amuro -
I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
J. A. Konrath