Anthony Doerr Quotes

Sometimes, if you wander long enough out-of-doors, you look up and find yourself in a suddenly devastating place: on a glittering slab of granite, say, hanging a thousand feet above a mountain lake.

Anthony Doerr

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MountainYourselfFeetEnoughLook

There's something in the Latino community called 'la promesa de Obama' - Obama's promise. He made very specific promises to the Latino community. He committed to enacting comprehensive immigration reform within his first year.

Ana Navarro

CommunityPromisesImmigrationYear

The Hester Street Fair started off as a passion project. We imagined a space where friends and neighbors in the creative community could have a place to find an audience.

Su-chin Pak

PassionCommunityCreativeSpace

Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.

Rowan Atkinson

FunnyI AmMeThinkI CanNeed

I want to do more sci-fi films. I want to play half-alien, half-illegal alien.

Michael Pena

AlienPlayWantMoreSci-FiFilms

Play the role as a human being... human beings are three-dimensional.

Michael Pena

PlayHumanBeing HumanHuman Being

You fly for hours and hours and hours over Africa to go from one place to another.

Mo Ibrahim

FlyYouPlaceGoAfricaOver

Your first obligation, I suppose, is to your God. Your second is to your family. And your third is to your community. And you ought to try to fulfill all of those in your life.

Dick Murphy

LifeFamilyGodCommunityYouTry

Britain has supported theocrats and dictators as long as it served British business interests, whether under Tory or Labour rule.

Deeyah Khan

BusinessLongRuleBritishDictators

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

Chauncey Wright

ScienceIgnoranceNothingAbleThem

I think it's no secret that I've tried to take chances in my career and also in my life, and I believe to not live in fear.

Nicolas Cage

LifeFearLiveBelieveChanceThink

Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly.

Moshe Sharett

HistoryChanceUsMustEvenMost

The reason why I wear gold - I wear gold for three reasons. One, when Jesus was born, three wise men came from the east: one brought frankincense, one brought myrrh, the other one brought gold. The second reason I wear gold is I can afford it. The third reason I wear it, it's symbolic of my African heritage.

Mr. T

MenWiseGoldHeritageI CanBorn

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