Protecting our planet is a moral imperative.
Johan Rockstrom
Recitation: by Male by Female
Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves.
Jesse James Garrett
WorkExperienceAppreciationWriting
Christians, Yezidis, and other religious minorities have every right to remain in their ancestral homelands.
Jeff Fortenberry
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It's particularly incumbent in the Middle East on Sunni Arab nations to fight for values, to fight for the protection of innocent life, to fight for the principles of civilization and stability and order itself.
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I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
John Steinbeck
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Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.
Amy Winehouse
LifeThinkingShortSittingAnything
I want people to make the same choice I made to get healthy.
Star Jones
PeopleChoiceHealthyWantSameGet
The new book is a result of my well-documented... absorption in Samurai movie culture. It's called 'The 47th Samurai: A Bob Lee Swagger novel,' and it takes Bob to Japan in search of the sword his father recovered on Iwo that has gone missing under extremely violent circumstances.
Stephen Hunter
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Nothing I do is done by popular demand.
Steve Martin
DoneNothingDemandPopular
With bad sci-fi - sci-fi that I don't really like - you watch it and get the impression that you're just seeing exactly what they created because they needed it in the movie. You feel like there's nothing more beyond that.
Travis Beacham
FeelYouSeeingBadNothingBeyond
I'm always working my own thing. A few times a week - I try to not go too crazy - I'm working with some other artist. But I'm constantly working my own stuff, and my own stuff seems to come in little bursts.
LP
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I've always hung out with people older than me, with my parents' friends, because I appreciated the conversation.
Lorde
ParentsPeopleMeFriendsOutOlder
It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?
Jonathan Franzen
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