Yann Martel Quotes
I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving. I was weeping because ....fill in the blank with whatever/whoever helped you survive... had left me so unceremoniously.
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We shred every day.
Fawn Hall
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
G. Willow Wilson
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I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.
S. Truett Cathy
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
Naomi Klein
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I have an emotional attachment with Katihar.
Tariq Anwar
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
Garrett Hedlund
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
A. P. Herbert
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Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
Natalia Makarova
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
Adam Levine Maroon 5
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
Randy Pausch
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I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.
Ursula Andress
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As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.
Karen Thompson Walker
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
Flip Wilson
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I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
Tamora Pierce
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Bullies always have another target.
Karen Handel
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People see my modelling and see me getting papped all the time and don't really get to see me because I don't do much TV or whatever.
Abbey Clancy
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'Look after him, Lieutenant. An army isn't made of it's officers, you know, though we officers like to think it is. An army is no better than its men, and when you find good men, you must look after them. That's an officer's job.'
Bernard Cornwell
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Prayer is more than words. It's listening, seeing and feeling.
Norman Vincent Peale
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I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.
T. S. Eliot
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Those who have gone through a divorce know the pain and special challenges of raising a child under such circumstances.
Mike McGavick
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I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving. I was weeping because ....fill in the blank with whatever/whoever helped you survive... had left me so unceremoniously.
Yann Martel