Terry Glavin Quotes

Among the fables that inspired the British Admiralty's cartographic assignments to Captain James Cook in the 1770s and Captain George Vancouver in the 1790s was a 1640 account under the name of Bartholomew de Fonte that appeared in a journal with the delightful title 'The Monthly Miscellany, or Memoirs for the Curious.'

Terry Glavin

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A few of the world's most famous non-American novelists have large followings in the United States, among them Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Guenter Grass, who were both popular even before winning the Nobel.

Stephen Kinzer

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If you were to Google 'SWAT' right now, or Google 'Military,' you would see guys covered in pouches. That's a sign of gear! We've got stuff in here. We carry stuff. And it's an aesthetic.

Rob Liefeld

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Harlem is really a melting pot for a lot of different people. When you look at Harlem - and I lived there almost five years - most of the people who live in Harlem are transplants. They migrate to Harlem from another place.

Mike Colter

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Anyone driving a 1992 Cutlass, take it back, because I built it.

Loni Love

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Some people in LA are addicted. They have to be here. My personal life is stronger than my professional life, in terms of priorities.

Debi Mazar

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I did play Ramses II once, who lived to be 91 and had 120 children, but he died 4,000 years ago.

Christopher Lee

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We have the best-trained military in the world.

Kevin McCarthy

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Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

Jane Asher

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The world's a better place since I chose music.

Henry Rollins

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Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous and necessary role in keeping Latinas out of poverty.

Grace Napolitano

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It sounds deeply shallow, but for brief spells every member of the public can be fascinating.

Graham Norton

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Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.

Evita Peron

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