Rick Nielsen Quotes
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
G. Willow Wilson -
And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
Larry David -
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
V. S. Pritchett -
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
Oscar Wilde -
Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
Sam Donaldson -
At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
Candice Swanepoel
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
Tammy Duckworth -
The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
Walter Annenberg -
The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn't give a hang what other people think of him. More likely, he's confident, open-minded and willing to make his own rules.
Candace Bushnell -
One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
Rachel Kushner -
You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
Randy Pausch -
On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.
Vin Scully
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Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.
Wendy Kopp -
With 'Game of Thrones,' there are no real limitations.
Nathalie Emmanuel -
Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.
Samuel Dash -
I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
Fiona Shaw -
I injured myself politically when I took on Jesse Jackson' in the 1988 presidential campaign. I was too strident. I didn't recognize the emotional tie that he had with all black voters.
Ed Koch -
I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder.
Pat Nixon
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It is the idea that it's a movie in a movie. So I did it.
Penelope Spheeris -
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
Sam Kinison -
Where I would fault President Bush the most was that, in the wake of 9/11, he motivated our military, but he didn't call the nation into a state of war. And he didn't explain that this would take though a communal effort against common foe.
Frank Miller -
Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. Because they saw one in a movie. To match the new living-room furniture. Because they moved to the suburbs and see a dog as part of the package.
Jon Katz -
On Sunday, we will Skype relatives - my brother lives in America, my best friend is in Canada, and Ryan's family are all in Australia.
Katherine Kelly -
I'm a good solid family man. I don't say I'm a good solid man.
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