Alvar N. C. de Vaca Quotes

One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.

Alvar N. C. de Vaca

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We have to go back to the memories of 9-11. If that memory doesn't do anything to you as an American, then you're not really that sensitive a human being.

Jim Brown

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Jiu Jitsu is a great workout both mentally and physically. You want to be strong for it and flexible for it.

Jocko Willink

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The color and the diversity dies out, and it gets whiter and whiter, and that's in any field. There is also this idea that there can only be one gay person or there can only be one Asian-American woman in the office, and so it also perpetuates itself where we are isolated, especially the more successful we get.

Jessica Williams

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In terms of stage presence for me, I'm influenced by a myriad of things. A lot of punk performers, people like Dave Vanian from The Damned and Davey Havok from AFI was a huge influence on me when I was younger.

Andy Biersack

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I'm not activist, but I'm not troubled by being in the LGBT corner.

Max Riemelt

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As long as God gives me the strength to still minister and create, I'll do it.

Andrae Crouch

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Actresses are just professionally lovely, aren't they?

Tom Hollander

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Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball.

Roger Maris

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There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone gets upset about Big Science, Big Pharma, but they love Big Placebo.

Michael Specter

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I wasn't interested in going to the school dances. I wasn't interested in going to the football games. What I wanted was to be in my room painting my walls and doing weird stuff. That's what I wanted and I got to do what I wanted, so that, to me, is my high school experience.

Brie Larson

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A toy is seen both as a bauble and as an intellectual machine.

Brian Sutton-Smith

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I used to write in a room overlooking the valley from where I could see too much, whether checking the sheep and alpacas or seeing the trout rise on the lake.

Antony Beevor

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