Angie Thomas Quotes
When I was a kid, if you asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, the answer was easy - the next Lisa Leslie.
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Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.
Barton Gellman
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
M. Scott Peck
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I like sitting close to windows.
Parker Posey
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
D. J. MacHale
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
Malik Jackson
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I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
Nancy Pelosi
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
Pankaj Mishra
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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I don't think about my fame very much.
Calvin Klein
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It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.
Caitriona Balfe
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
S. Jay Olshansky
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
Rabih Alameddine
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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
Iain Duncan Smith
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I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.
Sam Shepard
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I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
Pat Conroy
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
Walter Kohn
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Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past.
Ted Ligety
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
Daniel Barenboim
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
R. A. Salvatore
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It's like a rugby team. If you're picking for the World Cup final, you're picking experience with youth. Everything is better off having that balance and that mix. I think that, especially, goes for the monarchy as well.
Prince William
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I quite enjoy science fiction.
Lexa Doig
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Running a successful, growing company in Silicon Valley can create an ironic sort of depression and delusion. The better you're doing, the higher the stakes, and higher expectations for you to win. Maybe that's why people say it's so hard. But that doesn't make it hard. That just makes it distracting.
David Ulevitch
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Character is power.
Booker T. Washington
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When I was a kid, if you asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, the answer was easy - the next Lisa Leslie.
Angie Thomas