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.
Quotes to Explore
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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 don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
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My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
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I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.
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I feel great at Real Sociedad. It is a second family for me.
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'Drawn & Quarterly' has always given me complete editorial control over my books and comics, so any decision about what to include or exclude from the book was my own.
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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.
