Aliette de Bodard Quotes
All the heads of Houses looked like tigers who’d just caught prey— which boded ill for Silverspires.
Aliette de Bodard
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Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
Quentin Crisp
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I met this woman, I fell in love with her, and I'm a public figure.
Cynthia Nixon
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We ran as if to meet the moon.
Robert Frost
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This is a vast country, the infrastructure is expensive and it's a bigger country than the United States is, ... I am saying that if we were 40 million Canadians, that infrastructure would not be necessarily a lot more expensive, but we would be more (people) to foot the bill.
Pierre Pettigrew
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As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor;-let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.
Abraham Lincoln
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Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.
Aristotle
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When you're a great finisher, you'll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher.
Mike Tyson
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Words build bridges into unexplored regions.
Adolf Hitler
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The moment the game (AL Pennant versus the Twins) was over I sprinted for the dugout. The fans were pouring onto the field. If they'd caught me they'd have torn my uniform into shreds for souvenirs.
Carl Yastrzemski
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It was an old fear, a fear that has never left me: the fear that, in losing pieces of her life, mine lost intensity and importance. And the fact that she didn’t answer emphasized that preoccupation. However hard I tried in my letters to communicate the privilege of the days in Ischia, my river of words and her silence seemed to demonstrate that my life was splendid but uneventful, which left me time to write to her every day, while hers was dark but full.
Elena Ferrante
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I saw the movie, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' and was surprised because I didn't see any tigers or dragons. And then I realized why: they're crouching and hidden.
Steve Martin
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People told me I made the game look easy and I didn't always look like I was trying my best, but I always was.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
