Leila Slimani Quotes
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Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.
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I was an independent developer and started Junction Point in January of 2005.
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In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
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I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community.
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That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
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I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.
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I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
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There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.
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The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.
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Artists talk in 'art speak.'
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What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.
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If the North Korean Communists provoke another war, we must immediately deter it and give them a decisive counterattack at the initial place of aggression.
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I went through a soul-searching period. I went to a place that was a little bit more reflective and dark. I began to look at who I am, who I was, where I come from, what my culture is, and who I am as an African-American person in America.
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Sometimes I have problems where I get into a mode where even just looking at a page on a screen makes me panic. And getting past that is a really intense thing to do.
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Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.
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Certain exterior impulses hit the economic mechanism and thereby initiate more or less regular oscillations.
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I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say 'at last', I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do - so much have I enjoyed it.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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They (the FAI) have asked, very humbly, can't we be team No 33 at the World Cup? They have asked for that... really!
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer space. We want to launch a balloon that carries a vinyl record player.
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I like to describe my characters as though they were all trapped in a glass box.
