Bobbie Ann Mason Quotes

In America, we all come from somewhere else, and we carry along some dream myth of home: a notion that something - our point of origin, our roots, the home country - is out there.

Bobbie Ann Mason

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I don't like cruises. Period. My biggest nightmare is being stuck on a boat.

Joe Flanigan

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When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence.

John Bolton

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The most empowering feminist act is for women to be taught about the ways babies bond and then decide what they want to do.

Mayim Bialik

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I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.

John Oliver

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Many writers learned their craft and work ethic at a newspaper. I benefited from that.

Michael Connelly

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I've won the world title - what I've dreamt of since the age of eight.

Amir Khan

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It's a huge change from when I started in the 1960s, but what is really impressive is that the number of ladies on set, the women working on set is a huge percentage. There used to be no women. It was just the leading lady's mother, perhaps the hairdresser and the makeup person.

Amitabh Bachchan

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I'm gonna be the best version of me. If there's something I don't know, I'm not afraid to ask.

Alyssa Edwards

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These young people need to see that there's something bigger out there than what they're looking at everyday or seeing in the news or on social media. They need men and women to come into their lives who will give them a bigger vision of the world, of life, of opportunity, of what they can become rather than what they think they are limited to you.

Tony Evans

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Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?

Russ Carnahan

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On military battlefields, we have defeated radical Islamic forces every time we have seriously gone after them, from Iraq to Afghanistan.

Michael T. Flynn

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You can't make money on advertising; you just have to seed the clouds. What you're after is word of mouth.

Mitch Leigh

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