Avi Arad Quotes
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
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I'm a big foodie and would love to indulge in such things. I've been to many restaurants in the city, and although I can't eat often, I know what's available where.
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The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.
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It doesn't matter if I ever win another award or get to play another major jazz festival in America. I would rather not garner any of those things and speak honestly about the things that I see my people endure in this country and all over the world.
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I went to play in Brazil when I had just turned 18 and was the world's top junior player. I got to the airport, and no one knew who I was. I couldn't speak any Portuguese, and no one spoke English. Then someone said something that resembled 'tennis,' and I went with that.
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Pearls ... have a way of dying when separated from their owner.
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My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.
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I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of them had books attached.
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I think well-read people - the world is open to them.
