A. S. Byatt Quotes
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It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
Felix Frankfurter -
I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
Tamron Hall -
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
N. T. Wright -
I retweet Amnesty International tweets a lot. It isn't just, 'This person is incarcerated unjustly.' It's also, 'This person was just released.' Those are the victories we work toward, so if we don't inform people of the victories, it does become doom and gloom.
Nazanin Boniadi -
I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
Barbra Streisand -
In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.
H. R. McMaster
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To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.
Sally Schneider -
I listen to music constantly while writing.
Orson Scott Card -
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
Wendell Phillips -
I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
Randy Newman -
It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
Yogi Berra -
It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.
Laura Esquivel -
You can learn more from a person just from their observations and how they see the world. More so than just talking.
Maika Monroe -
Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds.
Saadi -
Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
Oliver Tambo -
At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
Walter Pater
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My heart was too big for my body, so I let it go.
Anis Mojgani -
I don't write about my life in my column.
Dan Savage -
Because he KNEW he was doing wrong. He felt the PAIN of his actions'-- 'But he did not amen them,' shows the Sky. 'The rest are worth as much as their pack animals,' I show, 'but worst is the one who knows better and does NOTHING.
Patrick Ness -
I was in college when tens of thousands of people marched on Washington for the first Earth Day. Raw sewage floated in rivers and clouds of smog hung over cities. But then something amazing happened. People spoke out. Thousands of students, workers, and ordinary citizens used their voices to say, 'This has to change.'
Frances Beinecke -
When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.
Aasif Mandvi -
I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.
A. S. Byatt