Jonathan Miles Quotes

Bermuda's beaches are justly famed for their pink sands, colored by the pulverized shells of single-celled organisms called foraminifera. When occupied by bikini-clad sunbathers, the beaches, with Victorian primness, appear to be blushing.

Jonathan Miles

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The book is called 'Most Talkative,' because I was voted most talkative in high school. And I've never stopped talking. My mouth has been my greatest asset and my biggest Achilles' heel.

Andy Cohen

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There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.

Anatoly Chubais

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Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.

John McCain

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When did I start comedy? I came out of the womb and did 10 minutes.

Andy Kindler

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For thousands of years, men have written history, so it seems to me that most of what we've read is from the male point of view.

Stacy Schiff

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The sophisticates of Java, the traders of Sumatra, the peasants from the outer islands found no common ground. During siesta time from one to five, the Islamic group met separately, the Nationalist group met separately, the Federalist and Unitarians met separately.

Sukarno

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I liked the Beastie Boys and A Tribe Called Quest and Cypress Hill.

Rose Byrne

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There's been a lot of simple vilification of right-wing people. It's really easy to say, 'Well, you're Christian, you're anti-this and that, and I hate you.' But to me, it's more interesting to say, 'What is this person like and how do they really think?'

Louis C. K.

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My mother wrote lyrics and sang but was overtaken by life with four children and worked.

Joy Harjo

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Women in the post-Fifties world were appendages. They existed to serve men. Their lives and concerns didn't matter, except insofar as they impinged on Important Male Things.

Judith Tarr

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I grew up listening to all kinds of music. When I came up, you would hear people like Marvin Gaye talking about Sarah Vaughan. You would go to a show and see Ella Fitzgerald performing the music of the Beatles.

Dianne Reeves

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I thought it was very important to keep growing with Atletico and to play there for many years.

Diego Costa

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