Edwidge Danticat Quotes
On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way.Edwidge Danticat
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
Dan Gilbert -
I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney -
We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.
Pat Summitt -
I have the necessary lack of tact.
Ted Koppel
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Saint Augustine -
I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
R. Kelly -
With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
Octavia E. Butler -
I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
Dan Castellaneta -
You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
Jack Kevorkian -
Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
Patricia Velasquez
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I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
Victor LaValle -
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
Karl Popper -
If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
Baba Kalyani -
The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.
Uri Geller -
In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
Walter Ulbricht -
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
Carl Jung
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It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.
Alice Koller -
What would people say if I had only asked to ban Muslim clothing? They would burn me as a Muslim hater.
Marine Le Pen -
I realize that men and women of the military go out and sacrifice their lives and put their selves in harm's way for my freedom of speech and my freedoms in this country, and my freedom to take a seat or take a knee, so I have the utmost respect for them, and I think what I did was taken out of context and spun a different way.
Colin Kaepernick -
In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history.
Mark Shields -
The Houston Astrodome was kind of a tough field.
Franco Harris -
On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way.
Edwidge Danticat