Arthur Erickson Quotes
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
Oriana Fallaci -
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
J. M. Roberts -
Everything can be satirized.
Sam Kinison -
In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
Ingrid Betancourt -
Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.
Patrick Kane -
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
Walter Savage Landor
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I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.
Taylor Swift -
I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
Odette Annable -
Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.
Eddie Bernice Johnson -
There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force.
Ted Stevens -
People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
Carly Fiorina -
Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
Ban Ki-moon
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I have such respect for... the Kennedy Center Honors. To be an artist in America and to be honored for it is extraordinary. In Europe, they really honor their artists. And you are on a very high level. And here it's not as revered as it is in Europe or Russia or anywhere in the world.
Patricia McBride -
Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.
Ted Dexter -
Generations of gun owners have taught their sons and daughters that it takes as much patience and skill to be a good shot as it does to be a good steward of a powerful weapon.
Gabrielle Giffords -
I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.
Umberto Eco -
They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's the same way with women... or at least the ones I want to be with.
Ian Somerhalder
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If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.
John Madden -
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
Ezra Pound -
There are different kinds of motivation, and the kind matters more than the amount.
Alfie Kohn -
Once woman is made equal to man, she fancies herself his superior.
Nancy Springer -
Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.
Arthur Erickson