Susan Burton Quotes

I knew hundreds and hundreds of women like me, who had traveled in and out of prison in a revolving door. They needed support and help just like I had received. And it could make a difference, just like it had made a difference in my life. I wanted to see them come back to the community and have a chance at a different life, too.

Susan Burton

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LifeWomenCommunitySupportDoor

The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind.

Andrea Bocelli

NatureMusicStrongReachEmotions

Kenny G is not real jazz. I don't even think Wynton Marsalis is real jazz. I don't think Harry Connick Jr. is real jazz. If there is such a thing as real jazz, The Lounge Lizards is real jazz, Henry Threadgill is real jazz, Bill Frisell is real jazz, you know?

John Lurie

ThinkYouKnowJazzRealEven

I feel old only when I look at my hands or at myself in the mirror.

John Updike

MirrorMyselfFeelHandsLookOld

The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool.

Srikumar Rao

LifeKnowledgePowerfulLivingTool

It was my dream to come to Oxford and study political science.

Stormzy

SciencePoliticalDreamStudyCome

How will decent people in the region ever believe in peace if Arab terrorists interpret every gesture of peace as a display of weakness and then act accordingly?

Tom Lantos

PeacePeopleBelieveWeaknessWill

Spanish chorizo is a spicy cured sausage that's especially tasty with clams.

Tom Douglas

SpicySausageSpanishTastyCured

These guys are warriors, my teammates.

Rob Gronkowski

TeammatesWarriorsGuys

I go to this gym full of stunt men. There aren't any TVs or treadmills there. This is a spit-and-sawdust kind of place. It has a lot of great training aids - trampolines and bags and every weapon ever invented to do harm to a human being. If you want to know how to throw a knife, it's great.

Jason Statham

GreatMenTrainingYouGymPlace

After they killed Uday and Qusay, the focus centered on Saddam: Find him, kill him, capture him, whatever it takes. To me, it was a false sense of security: If we get Saddam, we're going to win this war.

Janis Karpinski

FocusWarMeWinFindSecurity

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

Jonathan Raban

BibleBarHighSetProseLincoln

At CrowdStrike, we look for traces of the adversary and try to find out who the adversary is, what they are after, and what their tradecraft is. We also disseminate that information to enable collective action.

Dmitri Alperovitch

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