Andrei Codrescu Quotes
It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things to tell girls.
Andrei Codrescu
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To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.
Carlos Ghosn
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
Malorie Blackman
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While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.
Dan Ariely
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We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
Oliver Tambo
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I think that in Mexico, we must change some practices that were built during the 72 years of predominance in Mexico. Former presidents would just hide away, run away or disappear. And I think it's key in a democracy that presidents face people, see eye to eye to citizens and work to keep on contributing to the - to Mexico.
Vicente Fox
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I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.
Mackenzie Davis
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Every time I've done comedy in, like, traditional comedy clubs, there's always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that the other comedians hate because they're just, you know, doing kind of cheap stuff like dancing around or doing, like, very kind of base sex humor a lot, and stuff like that.
Aziz Ansari
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One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.
William Weld
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I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things to tell girls.
Andrei Codrescu
