Richard Flanagan Quotes

Perhaps the virtue of coming from a place like Tasmania is that you had the great gift of knowing that you were not the centre of things, yet life was no less where you were.

Richard Flanagan

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Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.

Jet Li

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You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.

Jennifer Lopez

YouOutThingsGiveGetThem

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.

Robert Smithson

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I meant what I said about how electing Donald Trump will set our country back. I stand by that. However, I do wish that I wouldn't have made the blanket statement about not respecting anybody who voted for Trump.

Stan Van Gundy

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My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.

Russell Simmons

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L.A. is so isolated and unhip in a way; it gives you room to figure out who you are and explore more personal stuff.

Mike Mills

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First of all, the world criticizes American foreign policy because Americans criticize American foreign policy. We shouldn't be surprised about that. Criticizing government is a God-given right - at least in democracies.

Michael Mandelbaum

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Jake Gyllenhaal is such a nice guy.

Jolene Purdy

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When you nominate for a seat, the expectation is that you serve that district and serve that seat if you are elected.

Denis Napthine

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If I've been dating someone for, say, five months, and she cheats on me, I don't think it would be worth it. I'm not committed enough to the situation to give her a second chance.

Avan Jogia

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I was talking to my good friend Kid Rock a while ago, and he told me if I'd send him a helmet, he'd send me an autographed platinum record. I thought that was a pretty sweet swap.

Peyton Manning

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I've had opportunities. But winning a major is not only about playing well. It's about having 'winner's luck.' I had winner's luck in 1999 at Medinah, but it didn't take me all the way.

Sergio Garcia

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