Terry Glavin Quotes

During the post-Soviet anarchy and the rush for the spoils of war, Hekmatyar spent most of his time between 1992 and 1996 raining rockets and artillery shells on the people of Kabul, leaving the city a smoking tomb of as many as 50,000 corpses.

Terry Glavin

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I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.

Jodi Picoult

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Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.

Simon Cowell

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I don't think journalists should talk about whom they're voting for.

Tom Wolfe

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I hate stories in which a person has an occupation and you never see him working at it, like all those marvelous Cary Grant movies where he's a surgeon, and you never see him in the operating room.

Tom Wolfe

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Tebow is the kind of guy who could revolutionize the game. He's the 'wildcat' who can throw. Most of the teams that have the wildcat back there, it's Ronnie Brown, it's Jerious Norwood, it's whoever you want to say it is. This guy here is 250 pounds of concrete cyanide, man. And he can throw. He throws well enough at any level to play quarterback.

Jon Gruden

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Global traffic has become very networked, very connected.

Dennis Muilenburg

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Because we're not in harmony with the environment, we're destroying the environment that supports us.

Bruce Lipton

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Many of my friends were there at Motown. The studio was only a few blocks from where my dad's home was, where we lived.

Aretha Franklin

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Somebody said something really smart: It's like you end up being the defense attorney for your role. Your job is to defend their point of view. You're fighting for what they want. You learn that in acting school - it's Acting 1A: 'What do you want? What's in the way?'

Annette Bening

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I think both running and science reflect certain character traits. I have endurance, patience, and ambition. I'm willing to work hard toward a goal, to push myself and overcome limits. Running and science both let me express these traits.

Wolfgang Ketterle

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I find it amazingly easy to take something, if you really believe in it, and turn it to reality.

Sebastian Thrun

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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

Rene Descartes

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