Mariah Carey Quotes
Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.
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Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
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I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.
Garry Kasparov
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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Educate yourself: Read up on current events and books.
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I've done a lot of sci-fi, so I was a little hesitant because you get pigeonholed into that genre and world. But at the same time, I love sci-fi because the women are so strong and independent and smart.
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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
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When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.
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A leader is a dealer in hope.
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Now, the typical way you make good things happen in Washington is you find a bunch of wealthy companies who agree with you.
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Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.
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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
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Having fun is a dismal business after you pass fifty.
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I've got to sing for Pops; I've got to keep my father's legacy alive because he started all of this. So I started calling people, and nobody would give me a chance, but I didn't let that stop me. I took money out the bank and I started making me a record, and I did it in this guy's basement.
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The beginning is always today.
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Gratitude is the attitude. That's the thing.
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OVOXO will always be there.
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I have no talent when it comes to pianos or guitars or any of that, even karaoke. For karaoke, I have to be wasted to get up there and sing.
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Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship?
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You have to keep on disrupting. If you let up the pressure, then al-Qaeda senior leadership will come back.
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Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.
