Tom Reiss Quotes

Today, the world is so awash in sugar - it is such a staple of the modern diet, associated with all that is cheap and unhealthy - that it's hard to believe things were once exactly the opposite. The West Indies were colonized in a world where sugar was seen as a scarce, luxurious, and profoundly health-giving substance.

Tom Reiss

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Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that, and that's important.

Jimmy Wales

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

John Greenleaf Whittier

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To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.

Michael Beschloss

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In using chance operations, the mind is enriched.

Merce Cunningham

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You can always go back to the place where you were comfortable, the place where you're from.

Ana de Armas

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For me, there is urgency in fiction, even though writing is, in itself, an act against the corrosiveness of time.

Romesh Gunesekera

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I want everybody to know that I don't care who you are, where you're from, if you're popular or not: we all have haters. But you have to be resilient. You have to not allow them to have the power over you, where you start believing the things they say.

Rozonda Thomas

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Both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich supported the Wall Street bailout.

Michele Bachmann

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I'm not a standup. I don't really have jokes. I don't have 10 minutes. It took a while for me to realize this.

Julia Sweeney

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I thought that that mission and the mission of taking care of those soldiers were my priorities, and I stand by the same today. There wasn't a lot of support for those soldiers.

Janis Karpinski

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My son loves the Hotel du Cap, in the south of France.

Diane von Furstenberg

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When you see what you really are, good or bad, there is a fearlessness to understanding your purpose.

Dawn Richard

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