Barbara Demick Quotes
In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.Barbara Demick
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
Eddie Perez -
The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
G. Willow Wilson -
If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
Carlos Alazraqui -
I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
Zara Larsson -
For me, it's always been about preparation, and the more prepared I can be each week, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.
Aaron Rodgers -
The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
Damien Rice
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Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing while other kids were getting together and doing things. But it just made me closer to my family, and I realized that they would always be there no matter what.
Nancy Kerrigan -
Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.
Edgard Varese -
I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.
Zac Brown Band -
My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
Page McConnell -
Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
E. L. Doctorow
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
Yair Lapid -
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
J. B. Priestley -
At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
Dan Colen -
If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
Haile Selassie -
I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.
Natalie Cole
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In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.
Ian Mckellen -
I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.
Gary Busey -
I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or effects.
Barbara Hershey -
As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
Bear Grylls -
My mom had a produce business in in Oxnard, and we used to take these long trips to talk to farmers and different distributors. She'd take us with her after picking us up from school, and she'd be blasting all this old soul music and R&B. I knew all those O'Jays songs before I knew Snoop or Dre or Tupac.
Anderson Paak -
In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.
Barbara Demick