Amanda de Cadenet Quotes
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There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
Ovid -
When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
Kate Klise -
What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.
Bassem Youssef -
You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.
Taylor Momsen -
To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
Fat Joe -
'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
Ilan Stavans
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I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.
Nancy Grace -
I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
Aaron Sorkin -
One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
B. Carroll Reece -
You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
E. O. Wilson -
I don't look at myself as suffering.
A. J. Langer -
I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
Patrice O'Neal
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
Oliver Sim The xx -
New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
Nathan Myhrvold -
I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
Laura Mvula -
A sudden intimacy occurs when someone does your hair.
Hailey Gates -
Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art.
Wendy Davis -
My music is almost like vomit! It's a horrible way to put it, but I feel it, I say it, and I doubt myself all the time throughout my whole life, but when it comes to music, I just don't. I don't doubt myself.
Sam Smith
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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
Gary David Goldberg -
[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!
I. L. Peretz -
In all of our efforts, we must be mindful of competitive pressures at home and abroad. Manufacturers are no longer simply competing within our borders. We share the marketplace with countries like China where the average manufacturing worker earns 61 cents an hour.
Tony Bennett -
The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.
Lord Byron -
As a Western woman in the Middle East, I am often put in a different category. I am sort of like the third sex. I am not treated like a man. I am not treated like a woman. I am just treated like a journalist. That is usually really helpful.
Lynsey Addario -
I was put in White City children's home when I was 15.
Amanda de Cadenet