Lisa Snowdon Quotes
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
T. Boone Pickens -
Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
Ban Ki-moon -
I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
Iain Banks -
Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
Taiye Selasi -
It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
Randy Newman -
For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.
Sam Houston
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I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
Ma Jian -
I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
Natalie Babbitt -
There are a lot of possibilities I'm looking at for the future, but I'm very insistent on not limiting myself.
Damian Woetzel -
People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
I just want to do great work: work that inspires people... To know that you are given this gift in life and that you can gift other people with it, that's the most rewarding thing for me.
Tammy Blanchard -
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
T. S. Eliot
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Harper Lee -
I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.
Iggy Pop -
To me, governing is communicating. That facilitates the whole job because I can listen, I can hear what people have to say, and at the same time I can let them know what are we working on, what is our strategic line, and where are we going.
Vicente Fox -
Something mystical happens to every writer who goes to the Masters for the first time, some sort of emotional experience that results in a search party having to be sent out to recover his typewriter from a clump of azaleas.
Dan Jenkins -
In like a dimwit, out like a light.
Walt Kelly -
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Sports is all about money.
Lynn Samuels -
I have to be careful not to be too proud in life, because there is always room for improvement.
Sylvia Kristel -
Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.
Dan Hill -
Tremendous, little short of superb. On cracking form.
Boris Johnson -
Everyone is mistaken, everyone lives in illusion. At best, we can admit a scale of fictions, a hierarchy of unrealities, giving preference to one rather than to another; but to choose, no, definitely not that...
Emil Cioran -
I'm the oldest and I've got two sisters.
Lisa Snowdon