Arthur Rock Quotes
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You don't have to be something to do something.
Gavin Newsom
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
Salman Rushdie
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Akhenaten's allegedly monotheistic worship of Aten and the more naturalistic art produced during his reign, a revolutionary break from the more formal art of earlier periods, have made him a sympathetic figure to many.
Pamela Sargent
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I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.
Halle Berry
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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Quentin Crisp
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I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.
Taslima Nasrin
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Despite what you might guess, when monitoring your breathing, your body doesn't care whether you're inhaling enough oxygen. It cares only whether you're expelling enough carbon dioxide - that's the gas that sets off the panic button when you're suffocating.
Sam Kean
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
R. L. Stine
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We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.
Oliver Tambo
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The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.
Harold Prince
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At least I had that, one guy understood me.
Yoko Ono
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Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
H. L. Mencken
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The longer you stand with people, the better it becomes.
Olivier Martinez
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Children should always be brave and do something about bullying. It's not okay to stand by and let it happen. Bullies thrive off secrecy. Children should tell someone if they see someone being bullied.
Imelda Staunton
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Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
Daniel Barenboim
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...words were said that could not be put right again...
Cormac McCarthy
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I'm absolutely amazed when some people say I am either hard or uncaring, because it's so utterly untrue. I can't say it because, if you say you are caring, it's like saying, ‘I'm a very modest person.’ Nobody believes you.
Margaret Thatcher
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I'm a nudist at heart.
Christopher Meloni
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When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?
Nelson Mandela
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
William Faulkner
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It's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing. I'm not a musician. I never thought of performing in a rock n' roll band. I was just drawn in. It was like being called to duty - I was called to duty, and I did my duty as best as I could.
Patti Smith
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut
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What is unusual about the United States - and it's something that I have never gotten used to - is that Jews here, there are so many of them, and they are so important to the culture.
Michael Lynton
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Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board.
Arthur Rock