Robin Marantz Henig Quotes

The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial.

Robin Marantz Henig

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I really enjoy just hanging out at my house since I never get to be there.

Jennifer Nettles

EnjoyHouseNeverOutHangingGet

I'll always have a chip on my shoulder until I hang my shoes up. No matter how long I play this game, the chip on my shoulder will always be there. That won't change.

Trae Young

ChangeShoesGameLongPlayMatter

I think, when you are writing non-fiction, you feel there's an obligation to get it absolutely right, so all your factual details have to be, have, you know, to go through a long list of them and tick them. I'm not saying that's not important in fiction, but I think you have a bit more leeway; you can suit yourself.

Ronald Frame

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That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.

Michael Ondaatje

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As it is, Al Jazeera is mostly funded by grants from the emir of Qatar-Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, whose family has ruled the country since the mid-1800s.

Michael Paterniti

FamilyCountryWhoseGrantsSince

There were many factors as to why I decided to come out as being undocumented. One of them is because I look the way that I look; I don't look like the 'stereotypical undocumented' person.

Jose Antonio Vargas

LookPersonWhyWayOutBeing

The reason I'm drawn to it is - both the off road racing and the motorcycles on the track - it takes a lot for me to quiet my brain and anything that requires 100% of my attention and focus I find very soothing and that is the closest I get to being content.

Dax Shepard

FocusMeBrainRoadRacingFind

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

David Sedaris

PeopleNonfictionBooksLikeAbout

The more you'll dress up the more fun you'll have.

Brian Molko

FunDressYouMoreUp

I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not.

Paul Wolfowitz

WelcomeThinkHelpStopWantCome

The United States of America have taken their name from the United States of the Netherlands.

Seth Low

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I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

Muhammad Yunus

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