Alberto Manguel Quotes
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I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.
Natasha Leggero
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
Umberto Eco
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'Giving 2.0' frames giving as a learning experience and encourages everyone to make giving a part of your year-round life.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
Abbey Lee Kershaw
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
Teddy Sears
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
Orlando Bloom
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
Laura Mennell
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I feel comfortable whenever I step on the floor.
Zach LaVine
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
Zhu Zhu
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
Becky Lynch
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
Zubin Mehta
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
Watt Key
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
Tatum O'Neal
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In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.
Oren Peli
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
Gary Johnson
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
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Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
Edgar Ramirez
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I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress.
Emanuel Celler
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Education today does not impart to the students the capacity or grit to face the challenges of daily life. The educational field has become the playing ground of ignorance.
Sai Baba
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It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.
Baltasar Gracian
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I had a fun high school experience. We had a big old prom, we had 400 kids in the graduating class and everything. It was a fun night. I enjoyed the limo ride there the most. Me and a couple friends riding with their dates, everyone was all dressed up, and I was into it, the energy and the anticipation of that entire experience.
Jonathan Keltz
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
Kate Atkinson
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One can transform a place by reading in it.
Alberto Manguel