Mariella Frostrup Quotes
Translating any insights I have for strangers' lives into positive action in my own has proved a challenge. While I've learned a lot about what everyone else is thinking, I fail miserably to use such knowledge in my private relationships.Mariella Frostrup
Quotes to Explore
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
Hamza Yusuf -
Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
P. J. O'Rourke -
You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
Jack Kemp -
I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
Rabih Alameddine -
I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
Damon Galgut -
Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
Imtiaz Ali
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.
Dan Kildee -
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
Vaclav Havel -
Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
Hamza Yusuf -
The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
Harlan Coben -
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
Rachel Kushner
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Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.
Ban Ki-moon -
As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
Ian Mcewan -
I had some interesting costumes... the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn't let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.
Sam Hunt -
The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
Naftali Bennett -
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I personally use the web as an Intelligence Amplifier.
Bran Ferren -
Even if it's not what you planned, you can make a life for yourself on your own and be happy.
Lisa Scottoline -
Once you get in a position where your rent is taken care of and you do have a job, you really get to deal with yourself and really become one with yourself. And you wake to your mind every day. That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.
Fred Durst Limp Bizkit -
When change is necessary, not to change is destructive!
A. R. Bernard -
If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.
Katharine Graham -
Translating any insights I have for strangers' lives into positive action in my own has proved a challenge. While I've learned a lot about what everyone else is thinking, I fail miserably to use such knowledge in my private relationships.
Mariella Frostrup