Georgia Douglas Johnson Quotes
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Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
Dan O'Brien
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When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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California is responsible for selling, trading and distributing large amounts of shark fins that come from all over the world.
Ted Danson
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There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.
Ralph Fiennes
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
Barbara Sher
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Netflix is distributed in 50 countries around the world. It's an incredibly affordable, well-distributed product that gives anyone with access to the Internet and a screen access to content in a very affordable way.
Ted Sarandos
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We don't have a public that really understands the world anymore, and in the age of complexity, that problem becomes much more difficult.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Nothing in the world can be more exciting than to create something and see it work.
Paloma Picasso
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Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.
Wilhelm II
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One of the most important things the United States did in the aftermath of World War II was to help returning veterans with housing. In 1945, in my home state of Oregon, we established the Veterans Home Loan Program, which for over 60 years has provided more than 300,000 loans. This has changed the lives of Oregon veterans and revitalized communities.
Earl Blumenauer
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No country is perfect, but we have to be honest, and strive to expand freedoms, to broaden democracy. The bottom line is that when citizens cannot exercise their rights, the world has a responsibility to speak out.
Barack Obama
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Hugh, I know I shouldn't even be asking you this, but what we really need in order to go in and take out Saddam is a precipitous event-something that would make us look good in the eyes of the world. Could you have one of our U-2s fly low enough-and slow enough-so as to guarantee that Saddam could shoot it down?
Madeleine Albright
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I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love.
Wendell Berry
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If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The world goes on as before, and it turns out that nobody else seems to to notice the unbearable lightness of being.
Lewis H. Lapham
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It's a nice feeling to go out in the world and look for excellence - the best in man. My subject is very valid. It's about people, and about life.
LeRoy Neiman
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The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.
James Daly
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The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.
Jerry Saltz
