Marianne Jean-Baptiste Quotes
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
R. Kelly -
The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.
Salman Rushdie -
I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.
Larry Wilmore -
I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
Carlos Santana Santana -
Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right.
Gaby Hoffmann -
If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
Ted Turner
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A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
Garry Disher -
How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
Karen Gillan -
A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.
Florence Nightingale -
Investments are a real partnership, with an expected return; donations are a gesture made as a result of ethical, religious, or political passions.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. -
On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else.
Hale Irwin -
Know that the tattoos are all significant. They're all extremely insignificant. I can't break each one down, but it's 20 years. The first one was 21 years of age from a football teammate.
Omari Hardwick
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What's really important is that all we ever were was a band. And all we ever wanted to be was a band.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
A lot of Playmates look like Playmates, but I look so girl-next-door and wholesome.
Karen McDougal -
I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad.
Sam Trammell -
Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.
Barney Frank -
Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.
L. Frank Baum -
Nowadays, there is a new trend that has started. Up to assembly election results, they were targeting Modi. Now it is very difficult for them to target Modi. So now you must have read so many articles, so many discussions on the TV: 'there's something wrong with the people of Gujarat'. This has the sic started!
Narendra Modi
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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Khalil Gibran -
No woman had ever done this to him: made him burn, tore him open, tried his patience to its very limits. People
Bella Andre -
The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.
C. S. Lewis -
If love lives through all life; and survives through all sorrow; and remains steadfast with us through all changes; and in all darkness of spirit burns brightly; and, if we die, deplores us for ever, and loves still equally; and exists with the very last gasp and throb of the faithful bosom--whence it passes with the pure soul, beyond death; surely it shall be immortal!
William Makepeace Thackeray -
The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.
Wendy Mass -
I see myself as British, and I want to be celebrated by Britain.
Marianne Jean-Baptiste