Nanci Griffith Quotes
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
Sam Heughan -
We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
Xavier Niel -
I realize that things happen for a reason.
Karl Malone -
Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
Wayne Huizenga -
Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
Hans Jonas
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
Sam Riley -
'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
Abraham Lincoln -
I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
Eden Sher -
Enjoy every sandwich.
Warren Zevon -
When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2 -
I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
Gary Weiss
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I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.
Malcolm Gladwell -
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
Dag Hammarskjold -
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Rabindranath Tagore -
Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
Katha Pollitt -
In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
Takashi Murakami -
Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.
Hans Jonas
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Globalisation for a startup is exciting; you have to learn so fast about the different cultures of the world.
Adam Neumann -
A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.
Dan Rather -
Basketball is always a piece of my life, but never the centerpiece.
Rebecca Lobo -
I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
Frida Kahlo -
I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience. There's a fine line you have to tread because you don't know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.
Billy Connolly -
Your own voice is the voice that carries you through life the best.
Nanci Griffith