Arthur Lewis Quotes

I was born in St. Lucia on January 23, 1915. My parents, who were both school teachers, had immigrated there from Antigua about a dozen years before.

Arthur Lewis

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I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.

Jim Morrison

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We all know that cattle and beef are among the biggest contributors to carbon emissions.

Jochen Zeitz

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A lot of NFL guys are misunderstood.

John David Washington

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At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.

Mercedes McCambridge

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The bottom line is we go to theatre to vicariously spend time with really intense characters.

John Ross Bowie

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Tiger Woods did not always win majors with ease; after his narrow victory in the 1999 PGA, he slumped and sighed as if he'd been carrying rocks uphill all afternoon.

John Updike

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Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Romesh Gunesekera

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Every country has a dark side of their history.

Miyavi

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If you hate somebody, it's like a boomerang that misses its target and comes back and hits you in the head. The one who hates is the one who hurts.

Louis Zamperini

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Most science fiction is based on our knowledge now and uses that to project the future.

Judith Tarr

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It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

Jose Saramago

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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

Joseph Conrad

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