Cat Stevens Quotes
Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not that good.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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We only had white socks in Romania. But when I used to come back from the States, I used to bring back pink and yellow socks with all kind of designs, and hair clips and elastic bands for the ponytail that had colourful designs.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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A closed mind is a dying mind.
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Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.
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I served in the state Senate for six years with retiring Gov. John Lynch. During that time, we had the fourth-lowest unemployment rate in the country.
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I think Newt Gingrich has a proven track record of changing Washington and getting results.
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There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.
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The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.
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Every little boy wanna pick up the mic, And try to run with the big boys and live up to the real hype. But that's like pickin up a ball, playin with Mike, Swingin at Ken Griffey or challengin' Roy to a fight.
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Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.
