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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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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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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Everybody has their detractors. Some people say arrogance, or whatever they may say. I only have one thing in mind, and that's doing a great job for the country.
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I'm an information junkie, and I don't mean that in snobby way. I'm not talking about world information. I just like to know what's going on, especially pop-culturally. It interests me.
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The library was one more essential in the parade of rooms in a big 18th-century house - and part of the required kit ever afterwards. The important thing was to have the books, not actually read them.
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When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.
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Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.
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I think well-read people - the world is open to them.
