Margaret Bourke-White Quotes
The sights I have just seen [at Buchenwald] are so unbelievable that I don't think I'll believe them myself until I've seen the photographs.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.
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I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
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I grew up listening to a lot of different types of music, and R&B in particular was something that I loved - Aaliyah, Usher, Alicia Keys, TLC.
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Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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'I hear you are going to In-jea. A most interesting country. I had a very good time there in my early youth. You must do the pig-sticking in Rajasthan. And you will find the people most agreeable in their own way. They have been most uncommonly decent to my niece.' (Galbraith, Ambassador’s Journal, 36)
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The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.
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I'd like to date another millionaire. I've never done that.
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Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.
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A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.
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I'm loving every second working with the brilliant Kayvan Novak; it's a hoot from dawn to dusk!
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To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I suppose it's significant, at least to me, that my first work should be about a historical figure.
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Trump has got to be one of the most branded people on the planet. You can't get away from him.
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Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer.
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Who needs one more chef in one more building with four walls and a kitchen?
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I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.
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Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.
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I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!
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The best memories on tour are always of kids who tell me they are going to run back to their classrooms and start writing!
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And Miss Oleander Coy had herself a blue mouth. Little stains at the edges of her raspberry lips where she put her pen when she was thinking, which was always.
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The sights I have just seen [at Buchenwald] are so unbelievable that I don't think I'll believe them myself until I've seen the photographs.
