Gabrielle Roy Quotes
She too was standing in the lamp’s raw light. Her cheeks looked hollow, her lips too red, too bold.Gabrielle Roy
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
Adam Goldberg -
Winning is everything in Hollywood.
Olympia Dukakis -
We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
T. Boone Pickens -
It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh -
Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
Hans Blix -
My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
Gary Lineker
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You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.
Carlos Slim -
We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
Zac Goldsmith -
I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain.
Eddie Redmayne -
A guy like Benoit, he's really good and a lot like Dynamite. Dynamite, just because he was the original, was the best. But, you know, Benoit now is by far better. Dynamite Kid is nothing now.
Owen Hart -
If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.
Yoko Ono -
There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience... depending on where we're taping, there can be anywhere from 300 to 5,000 people, so the contestants are nervous.
Vanna White
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You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.
Walter Hill -
I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want.
Bam Margera -
For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.
Lactantius -
Everything happens for a reason - I'm a believer of that for sure.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
Garry Trudeau
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My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to music.
Fleur East -
She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it.
Anthony Trollope -
I hear the sound of gunfire at the prison gate, Are the liberators here?Do I hope or do I fear?For my father and my brother, it’s too late but I must help my mother stand up straight.Are we the last ones left alive?Are we the only human beings to survive? - Red Sector A (1984)
Neil Peart Rush -
The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel path between manicured lawns. She would have in tow one or two slower-footed, sari-clad young Indian nuns. We thought her a freak. Probably we'd picked up on unvoiced opinions of our Loreto nuns.
Bharati Mukherjee -
There was hell in her eyes! She was worn and jaded Her soul is at war with the life she has led. As I looked on that face so strangely faded I wonder God did not strike me dead.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
She too was standing in the lamp’s raw light. Her cheeks looked hollow, her lips too red, too bold.
Gabrielle Roy