Aidan Chambers Quotes
I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.
Quotes to Explore
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The establishment of Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world.
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The most amazing thing about Karl Lagerfeld is that no matter what you ask him, you will always get an interesting answer. We even exchanged notes about ponytails.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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I want to do good for Israel. My philosophy is let's do good stuff, and let's see what happens. And que sera, sera.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.
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It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
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The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.
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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
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I have never, ever talked about my orientation or sexuality because whether I am heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual, it is my concern. I refuse to talk about it... I have not been brought up to talk about my sex life.
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Very ugly things were said about me.
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We just compare our lifestyle to movies so you can relate to them. When I say, 'I bought a carpet from Aladdin so I could finesse and do magic,' that means I had to get me a new whip or I had to get me something in disguise to work my magic, to finesse, to get out of here.
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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
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When you stop grabbing for things, sometimes the world just hands them to you, instead. Focusing on others is true success.
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No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow.
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This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.
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I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one.
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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.
