Mark Billingham Quotes

We didn't have all the distractions that young people have today. We didn't have these incredible computer games and social networks to engage with. I understand that. But once young readers do discover reading, when they discover a book which they fall in love with, it really unleashes something new in their imagination.

Mark Billingham

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I like Sultana cookies - they are so, so, so good. I think the best in the world.

Maud Welzen

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They legislate fatherhood in Norway. It's not an option. That's a shocking thing to us in America.

Steven Van Zandt

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I support non-discrimination for homosexuals, but I think, or at least I have the right to think - without saying whether I think it or not - I have the right to think, along with the catechism of the Catholic Church, that homosexuality is morally wrong.

Rocco Buttiglione

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I'm voting for Bernie Sanders because he doesn't take any corporate money.

Ronda Rousey

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Traveling around Ethiopia, I saw dozens of abandoned textile factories. People kept asking me to help them find work. So I thought I could make use of my experience in fashion to commercialize their products outside of Ethiopia.

Liya Kebede

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A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.

Chris Christie

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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

William Hazlitt

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It's hunger. It's homelessness, often. It's underfunded, under-resourced schools. It's abuse beyond the chilling. It's having overwhelmed parents and caregivers. Those are the things that young people are struggling with beyond our view.

Susan L. Taylor

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I don't like alien films where you don't get to see the aliens.

Peter Berg

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I know I can cook, but the place where I cook... it's a mess! I'm very disorganized.

Paula Deen

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The thing I don't want to do as a film composer is reiterate. I prefer to subtextualize or to underline rather than to say, 'This is what you should be feeling.'

Thomas Newman

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None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

Morris West

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