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Jonathan Raban Quotes

Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: british
Birth: June 14, 1942

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Bible Bar High Set Prose Lincoln

Let me say this: I'm paranoid of the government. They've lost my trust. They've lied to me so many times that I don't know what to believe from them anymore.

Trust Government Me Believe Know

Be assured that, as certain as Congress transcends its assigned limits and usurps powers never conferred, or stretches those conferred beyond the proper limits, so surely will the fruits of its usurpation pass into the hands of the Executive. In seeking to become master, it but makes a master in the person of the President.

John C. Calhoun

Limits Hands Person Become Never

It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer.

Good Great Myself I Am Writing Hard

Tell people that biology and the environment cause obesity and they are offered the one thing we have to avoid: an excuse. As it is, people who see more fat people around them may themselves be more likely to gain weight.

People Fat Environment Biology See

Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed.

Robert Gottlieb

Talent Hungry Her Sights Set Ballet

We have to remember that no matter how much hardship we go through in our life, there is always going to be that fragile place in our heart.

Life Heart Remember Place Go Matter

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

Me Theatre Acting Want Actor Saw

If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side.

Juan Antonio Bayona

You Look Dark Dark Side Want Fairy

The men and women on the front lines of the war on terror continue to risk their lives to save ours - and for that we owe them a debt that we can never truly repay. Thanks to their efforts we have made tremendous progress. Yet, the job is not done.

Women Men Job Progress War Done

My goal was never to withhold information; my goal was to make sure everything was accurate, and frequently it wasn't.

Information Goal Never Everything

I don't care how late it is, I will not go to sleep without washing my face.

Christine Lakin

Sleep Face Care Late Go Will

I kind of hate the fact that people are always trying to put you into a category. I hate walls, and I hate boundaries. I don't like that. I listen to everything.

Hate Walls People Trying You Kind

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