Tea Obreht Quotes
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
Felix Baumgartner -
I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.
J. Michael Bishop -
I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
Rachel Nichols -
Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.
Zig Ziglar -
Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.
Paloma Elsesser -
Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.
Yair Lapid
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I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.
Jackie Chan -
The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
Federica Montseny -
Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.
Patricia Richardson -
I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
Faith Hill -
After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
Barack Obama
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I've always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward, to open you up to new worlds.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
Adam Jones -
Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.
Ralph Nader -
How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
Walter Jon Williams -
When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.
Carlos Ghosn -
If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
Zara Larsson
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
Patricia Cornwell -
The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
Wendy Kopp -
The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.
Valentina Tereshkova -
The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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