Deborah Harkness Quotes

I realised that today we are very much interested in reading about subjects that would have also interested people in the 1500s: ghosts, demons and things that go bump in the night.

Deborah Harkness

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TodayPeopleNightReadingDemons

I've been studying the cultures of Asia for many years, and I'm very attracted to the culture of Japan, in particular to the impact Zen has had on the Japanese mind and spirit.

John McLaughlin

CultureMindImpactSpiritStudying

It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.

Amanda Lindhout

EducationProblemsSlowUnderstanding

Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.

Steve Wozniak

WorldEverythingToneSettingDid

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

Tracy Chapman

WritingGuitarUpSongsEvenBefore

I used to be a lot better looking before I joined WWE. Whatever happens in the ring is real, and for anyone to think any differently would be a big mistake.

Roman Reigns

MistakeLookingThinkBetterRing

I was definitely a late bloomer and didn't really come into my own until I was probably in my 20s.

Misty Copeland

LateMy OwnOwnComeLate Bloomer

I'm a lot of work.

Lisa Marie Presley

WorkLot

'Power Paandi' is about the outcome of embracing love, peacefulness, and positivity around us.

Dhanush

LovePowerUsPositivityOutcome

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Denis Diderot

QualityMenGeniusAlwaysOrdinary

When the very people that you been taught to believe in - the police, the D.A., these are the people that are supposed to stand for justice - and when you know that they lied to you, it's hard for you to have trust in anybody.

Anthony Ray Hinton

JusticeTrustPolicePeopleBelieve

The debt ceiling is not something to toy with.

Austan Goolsbee

DebtCeilingSomethingToy

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.

Phyllis McGinley

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