Laura van den Berg Quotes

Children exist in the worlds that adults create for them, both locally and globally, and their options are, by virtue of age, often painfully limited.

Laura van den Berg

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I fought as an infantry Marine on one of the Vietnam War's harshest battlefields. After leaving the Marine Corps, I studied law and found a fulfilling career as an author and journalist. But again and again, I came back to the personal fulfillment that can only come from public service.

Jim Webb

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Whether a president can truly improve, or damage, an economy remains an open question.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

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You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

Andrew Carnegie

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Our responsibility is to focus on the House. The Senate's the Senate.

Tom Graves

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Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium in it - because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced.

Molly Ivins

FreedomGreatWaterMenFunTexas

You can't steal every scene. There are scenes in which you need to sit back and do a lot less, verbally, physically.

Luke Pasqualino

YouBackNeedSitStealScenes

It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!

Jordin Sparks

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I'm very about football and very about my job, which doesn't get reported or won't get reported, but I am going to enjoy my time off. That's I think what everybody else does, and that's what I should do.

Johnny Manziel

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A lot of time, you play well and you do good work, but you are not on a good team, so it really doesn't mean anything.

Chauncey Billups

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I'm an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call 'the last illusion.' The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what's going on but that the planets know what's going on.

Brian Eno

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Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into Spanish.

Antonio Munoz Molina

BecauseEnglishBeenBooksItalian

When I came up in L.A., a lot of comics produced their own shows, and so if you wanted to have a show in the city, you produced it yourself.

Wyatt Cenac

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