Christopher McCandless Quotes
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
Tanya Tucker -
For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.
Victor LaValle -
If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
Manoj Bhargava -
One of the biggest concerns that many voters have with both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, but particularly with Ms. Clinton, is the sense that she uses government power to advance her personal and political interests. She is the very status quo. Americans want that changed.
Gary Johnson -
To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
Natan Sharansky -
Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
Haile Selassie
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
Carl Hiaasen -
I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
Yoko Ono -
On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
Patrick O'Brian -
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
Kate Walsh -
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
Ted Rall
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
Gary Oldman -
I have always wanted to be liked and respected.
O. J. Simpson -
It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
Zane Grey -
I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
I'm from a very small village in the middle of nowhere, four hours by airplane from Moscow. Yemanzhelinsk - you wouldn't find it on the map. Don't even try it. It's super, super tiny.
Irina Shayk -
I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
Kate Brown
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Great actors help. Every project is different. Sometimes it's completely open, and I've been able to cast who I've wanted. And then sometimes people want a certain kind of actor.
Lisa Cholodenko -
I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.
Matt Taibbi -
I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.
Naomi Klein -
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Socrates -
Corporate responsibility extends not only to the customers, the resources and the workers of the present, but also to those of the future.
Donella Meadows -
I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!
Christopher McCandless