Shirley Hazzard Quotes

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

Shirley Hazzard

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I'm a big person when it comes to doing what you believe in.

Andre Ward

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I try not to give advice unless people ask me.

Maye Musk

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I want to sing for the broadest possible audience.

Mel Torme

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Well, I refer to 'Celebrity Jeopardy ' as the short-bus 'Jeopardy,' because it is a lot easier. Like, there was a whole column basically naming stores in New York.

Andy Richter

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I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.

Mercedes McCambridge

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I really like Miranda Lambert. She has a great voice.

Trisha Yearwood

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Like most Christians, I believe the Genesis account of creation is a description of six different stages of creation, each of which may have taken eons of time.

Tony Campolo

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I left school early in my last year before I took my A-levels. I wasn't expelled. It was just a mutual understanding. I wasn't interested in going to school and they said, 'You're not turning up,' so we severed ties. Both sides appreciated it.

Tom Sturridge

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During the Cuban Missile Crisis, decisions made by President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev could have plunged both countries into thermonuclear war.

Ronald Kessler

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When you work at Google and tell these engineers that their skill set is relevant to somebody in Iran who doesn't have access to information in their country or the rest of the world, it really inspires them to want to do something about it. There is a genuine altruism that exists at this company, and that's why I'm here and not anywhere else.

Jared Cohen

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There's something really satisfying if you've created a bunch of characters that have withstood 25 episodes.

Jonathan Tropper

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With a mammogram - as great as they are, and they do save a lot of lives - if you have very dense breasts, it really can't see if there is something in there. There are other tests, including an MRI, that can really go into the tissue and really see cell formation and hot spots, and that's what you want to see before it becomes a tumor.

Christina Applegate

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