Nan Fairbrother Quotes
... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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With 'Dance Moms' in L.A., we film on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. When we film in Pittsburgh, we film the same days, but we still dance in our studio when we're not filming, so I'm dancing every day except Sunday.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
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For Bitcoin, if it becomes a thing, it will become an enormous thing. It will be world-changing. But if it's nothing, it's nothing. There is no in between.
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I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.
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Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.
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I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.
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Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.
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We have to build the capacity of our institutions, employees and workers. Our regulatory environment has not been encouraging to research, innovation and enterprise.
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I am sensitive to the fact that other people may have different beliefs.
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A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not know what friendship is. If they are united, it is by the common bond of a desire to attack their world.
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... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.
