Alice James Quotes
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Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.
Ban Ki-moon -
When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
Olympia Dukakis -
Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.
Ed Markey -
I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.
Bat for Lashes -
Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
Gary Miller Bad Brains -
My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
Banks
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
Parvesh Cheena -
With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.
Tamora Pierce -
Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.
Daniel Barenboim -
When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.
Paris Hilton -
My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a heap of trouble when we met.
Taylor Hanson Hanson -
I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.
Walter Mosley
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I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
Fiona Shaw -
I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.
Edi Rama -
I had an entrepreneurial spirit and started branching out from there.
Vance McAllister -
'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art from art history and replicated them all out of Lego bricks.
Nathan Sawaya -
There's a lot of mental illness in my family. So, if you catch schizophrenia, get four boxes of Mike and Ikes, a Bible, and a cage. Wait it out.
Maria Bamford -
Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time. But I'll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again.
Arthur Miller
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Being an actor in Hollywood involves lots of things beyond acting. Charm really helps.
Pierce Brosnan -
There is no frigate like a book and no harbor like a library, where those who love books but can't afford their own complete collections, or those who need a computer, or kids who need a safe place to read after school, or moms with toddlers who want their babies to learn to read, can all come together and share in a great community resource.
Sara Paretsky -
If we are recognizing the Bible as a sacred text, then we are violating the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Tennessee by designating it as the official state book.
Bill Haslam -
Government is inevitably going to play a very significant role in infrastructure, and in a country with a federal system where vibrancy and economic health depend on interstate commerce, it's not going to be private enterprise or state governments that will give you things like an interstate highway system.
Norman Ornstein -
Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. -
Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected.
Alice James