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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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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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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Bod said, 'I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of a desert island. I want to play football with people. I want,' he said, and then he paused, and thought. 'I want everything.'
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Always the fact remains that to the mentally indolent this book may well seem a volume of disconnected short stories. All of us being more or less mentally indolent, this possibility constitutes a dire fault.
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Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
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The ultimate for me would be to do a feature that didn't require any narrative structure.
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When you're out grocery shopping for your family, maybe you can put a can of cat or dog food in your cart and bring it to an animal relief center.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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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.
