Amber Cope Quotes
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It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
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It's not hard to find a new husband, but someone who is, for an example, a good bridge partner for you comes along once in a lifetime.
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I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
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Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same concerns, and we are all alike. I don't think so. I'm interested in class warfare because I think it's real.
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Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
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It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich.
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My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.
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I love track and field, but I also know the day will come when I will have to do something else.
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I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.
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Speech at the Nobel Banquet (10 December 1979).
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Night's darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.
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It is blood which moves the wheels of history.
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I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.
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Issue the orders Sir, and I will storm Hell.
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Because of the 9/11 attacks, the framing of terrorism by politicians, the media, and the public too often in the past decade and a half has been that it is Islamist political violence that is the terrorism we need to be concerned about.
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You can only really understand good if you have bad, so the idea of heaven or anything that happens for eternity, even if it's nice, I can't imagine it being nice forever. Even the idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know.
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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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I always want to think of myself as an underdog.
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It would be through individual effort, inspired perhaps by reading Nietzsche's books, that the Overman might emerge, not through social or educational engineering.
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I take classes to be a mortician.
