Andrew Haigh Quotes

I think it's always interesting to me how we keep secrets from the ones we love the most. You could be so close to someone, but still there was something you can't express, you can't tell them, because it's almost too painful and too hard for you to articulate yourself, because you don't fully understand it.

Andrew Haigh

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Desktop computers - boxes inside boxes - began appearing in those cubicles in the mid-eighties, electrical cords curling on the floor like so many ropes.

Jill Lepore

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I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on.

John Barton

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An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program.

John Glenn

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I typically do the opposite of what people think I am going to do.

Andre Ward

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Every week, as a staff, you put a plan together and put your players in position to make plays.

Jeff Fisher

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Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

Mencius

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Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.

John R. Allen

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In West Yorkshire, I'd have to drive three quarters of an hour to go shopping.

Sophie Hannah

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I think 'The Searcher' is a departure from my first because it's less grounded in religion and is far more rooted in the mythic tradition: more of an existential thriller where the main character is actually the central mystery, and his journey is all about trying to figure himself out.

Simon Toyne

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What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party.

Tony Blair

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There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word in a familiar context. If you translated something into French and then had it translated back into English by somebody who didn't know the original, you'd lose what was funny.

Tom Stoppard

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Diminishing violence is a goal everyone can support, and I look forward to participating in the debate when specific proposals come before the House.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

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