Robyn Davidson Quotes

That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.

Robyn Davidson

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Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

Jim Morrison

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I think art teaches us how to feel, what our parameters can be, what sensations can be like; it makes you more engaged with life.

Jeff Koons

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A significant U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan has been continuous since October 2001, and President Obama's short-lived 'surge' in 2009 was a continuation of his predecessor's buildup there.

Michael Hayden

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While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.

Amartya Sen

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I was born to play baseball.

Roberto Clemente

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When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.

Michel Houellebecq

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I've never not started.

Jared Goff

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It is not repentance per se that saves man. It is the blood of Jesus Christ that saves us.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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I live in London and I love living in a gun free environment and long may it continue.

Clive Owen

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I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.

Augusten Burroughs

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If you truly want to innovate, there will be some failures, and this can be difficult for some organizations - especially public companies managing quarterly earnings.

Lynne Doughtie

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When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.

Leslie Jones

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