Nancy Banks Smith Quotes
This is one of those big, fat paperbacks, intended to while away a monsoon or two, which, if thrown with a good overarm action, will bring a water buffalo to its knees.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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Orange juice from concentrate is labeled. Food coloring Red #5 is labeled. Fish are labeled as to whether they've been previously frozen. To a consumer, there's no plausible reason why these factors should be on a food ingredient label while the presence of GMOs shouldn't be.
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I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
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Bitcoin is here to stay. There would be a hacker uproar to anyone who attempted to take credit for the patent of cryptocurrency. And I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of hacker fury.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.
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When I first started out in cycling, if there were two girls there, that was successful; but now, if there are 20 girls there, it's just unbelievable. The growth of the sport is just incredible.
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What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future but it's always based on what we have. Then as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas. You know?
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Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
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No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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India absorbs things; India's not a divisive place.
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I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.
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Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that.
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I very much looked up to Janet Evans and Summer Sanders.
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I had hardly begun to read I asked how can you ever be sure that what you write is really any good at all and he said you can't you can't you can never be sure you die without knowing whether anything you wrote was any good if you have to be sure don't write
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You don't want R&B singers to get into beef. Leave that to the rappers, let them do that - R&B, be classy.
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I wouldn't want to stay in any place for longer than 10 years, honestly. It's good to travel and see what's happening in the world.
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The world is only as deep as we can see. This is why fools think themselves profound. This is why terror is the passion of revelation.
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The Yankees, you see, they're a money team, they're the class of baseball. You don't ever bet against that.
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This is one of those big, fat paperbacks, intended to while away a monsoon or two, which, if thrown with a good overarm action, will bring a water buffalo to its knees.
