Davone Bess Quotes
I do believe that everything happens for a reason. We're not on Earth by accident. Things don't happen in your life for no reason.
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The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light that exists in everybody. It's that light that I'm searching for in all of my work - is that connective thing, that ether that enters all of us - you know what I mean? That's a part of God.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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Everybody eats a little differently, but the more where you are aware of what you put in your body and how it affects your performance, the better opportunities you have. And that's what I'm trying to do.
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I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.
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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
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Spain and the United States share the same values of democracy, liberty and fundamental freedoms.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.
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The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
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For the most part, editors no longer view 'Doonesbury' as a rolling provocation, which is fine by me. It makes no sense to intentionally antagonize the very people on whose support you most depend.
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Father of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!
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I slept with a woman on the ship, and afterwards I was thinking, 'Am I gaaaay? Am I straaaaight?' And then I realized: I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?
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Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting.
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Cloudy all day. Showery on mtns. to eastward at noon. Fine thunderstorm evening, with grand display of zigzag intensely vivid & very near with keen cracks and grand trailing rain … Visited Elk ranch. About sixty old & young. Old bulls carry horns in noble style & grand airs.
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All things except reason and order are possible with a mob.
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I do believe that everything happens for a reason. We're not on Earth by accident. Things don't happen in your life for no reason.
