Louis Zamperini Quotes
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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.
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Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.
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The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
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I associated excellence in writing with New York City.
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I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.
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Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.
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It cannot be a coincidence that a European team couldn't win a World Cup held in South America.
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I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called my name from the stage. 'Dookie' was the first album I ever bought. I covered the whole of 'Nimrod' and he'd heard it. That was like the 11-year-old girl dreamed.
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A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.
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Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.
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I was kind of an invisible girl when I was young.
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You name him. I beat him.
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Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.
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It’s the art-magazine ‘Circle’ been reprinted and it’s now referred to as classic. Well it is. But w:Ben Nicholson, Sir Leslie Martin, Gabo and Leslie Martin’s wife, Sadie Speaight, and I did that. We were sitting round the fire and we said, ‘Why shouldn’t we do a book?’ And so we started and now it’s a classic and referred to as such.
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We had 45 lakh cases pending from 2003–2004, to which 65 lakh new cases were added, making it more than one crore pending cases. After our initiatives, there are only 20 lakh pending court cases. Now my target is that by 2010, when Gujarat will complete 50 years, we will make it no-pendency. Cases will be disposed of in the very year they are filed.
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Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind.
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It's fun to perform Bernie Sanders and give his boring percentages and fact-based points to address some ridiculous Trumpisms, because that was always my fantasy for what the general election would look like.
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I myself won't do anything, but I won't stop anyone else from acting.
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I truly hate marketing promotions, and I don't at all approve of encouraging wannabe poets to write bad poetry.
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Here's the thing Washington always misses. Washington always wants a deal. America wants a solution. Americans sent us here to solve problems.
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It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
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When you're on a raft, you pray like in a foxhole.
