Geraldine Brooks Quotes

I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the journals of 18th-century seafarers lately, and even the lowliest press-ganged deck-swabber turns a finer phrase than I do most days.

Geraldine Brooks

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By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.

John Cassavetes

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I had a variety of minds about me and all of them unsettled.

John Clare

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Leadership is about stepping up when it's the appropriate time and then making sure everyone knows that we're all on the same page.

Robert Kraft

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Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

Stewart Alsop

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A married vicar is likely to regard his vocation as a job - a tough and ill-paid one, to be sure - but a priest is seen as a pillar of the community, answerable only to his parishioners and his God, rather than to a wife and children.

Simon Hoggart

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People who come out of the liberal arts don't have an understanding of science and technology, and the people in science and technology have very little experience with liberal arts and the traditions of a liberal democracy.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

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In human geography, we think about landscapes as being political, social, cultural, economic, and physical things all at the same time. And that's the way that I wanted to approach the question of state secrecy.

Trevor Paglen

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Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries.

Tom Tancredo

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Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.

Tom Waits

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I knew quite a lot about politics before I went to Parliament.

Ruth Rendell

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The First Amendment doesn't give anybody the right to be heard. People don't have to listen to you.

Rush Limbaugh

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I wanted to quit the industry when I was eighteen and finish '70s', finish my contract on the show and go to college because I was pretty convinced that after '70s' and after being on a show for eight years that I would be very much pigeonholed for something specific that I didn't want to be a part of anymore.

Mila Kunis

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