Khaled Hosseini Quotes
It was Homaira and me against the world. ... In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.
Khaled Hosseini
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
Taya Kyle
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
Carl Hiaasen
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I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.
Rachel Keller
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You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!
Cameron Diaz
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When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
Ian Somerhalder
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
Zadie Smith
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Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.
Pat Buchanan
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I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.
Laura Bell Bundy
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My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
Sadie Jones
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It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.
Caleb Cushing
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Athol Fugard became famous as a playwright, so although 'Tsotsi' the book was written in the '60s, it was only published in the '80s. It was then optioned pretty much every year by producers. I think the problem was that holding onto its period setting made it very hard to get finance.
Gavin Hood
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Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
Bill Bradley
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People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
Jack Nicklaus
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On June 22, 1793, Vancouver's Discovery and Chatham anchored in Klekane Inlet. Archibald Menzies, the ship's botanist, wrote that on the evening of June 28, they were visited by eight natives in two canoes who brought them two large salmon. This is the first known published encounter with the Haisla people.
Eden Robinson
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FDR once said he was like a cat, that he would pounce and then relax. That's much harder to do in the 24-hour cable world, because it's almost like the press demands of you to be saying something or doing something every day.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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All grace grows as Love to the Word of God grows.
Philip Henry
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It was Homaira and me against the world. ... In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.
Khaled Hosseini