E. M. Forster Quotes
'A friend,' he repeated, sentimental suddenly. 'Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep.'
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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I actually don't think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisine was always about discipline, about ingredient, about creativity, but also about simple. I see America as very similar in these rights.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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Our government shouldn’t make promises we cannot keep – but we must keep the promises we’ve already made.
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Low-end disruption occurs when the rate at which products improve exceeds the rate at which customers can adopt the new performance.
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There's something uniquely interesting about Buddhism and mathematics, particularly about quantum physics, and where they meet. That has fascinated us for a long time.
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Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of my life and friendships. I learned quickly how to stand alone.
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I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawing board at home that I am going to miss.
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'A friend,' he repeated, sentimental suddenly. 'Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep.'
