Kate Williams Quotes

The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.

Kate Williams

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The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

Jerzy Kosinski

RelationshipNewAcceptWriteThings

I knew it would be painful to write a memoir.

Jesmyn Ward

WritePainfulMemoirWouldKnew

People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.

John Bolton

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I think ISIS can do terrible things.

John McCain

ThinkThingsTerribleI Think

My parents adopted me, and then, by the age of four or five, I was asking all sorts of questions, and they found themselves with a son who was interested in the sorts of things that they valued but weren't natural to them.

Michael Gove

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I want to take all the pain that I feel and celebrate and turn it around.

Stevie Wonder

PainCelebrateFeelWantTurnTake

Those who reject integration programs in the long term have as little right to stay in Germany as a hate preacher paid from abroad in a mosque.

Sigmar Gabriel

HateLongRightLittleIntegration

Exposing police lying is difficult largely because it is rare for the police to admit their own lies or to acknowledge the lies of other officers. This reluctance derives partly from the code of silence that governs police practice and from the ways in which the system of mass incarceration is structured to reward dishonesty.

Michelle Alexander

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The only people in my whole life that have ever called me Edward are the police because it's on my license.

Judge Reinhold

LifePolicePeopleMeBecauseWhole

I remember saying I wanted to be a cosmetologist when I was really young.

Jonathan Van Ness

SayingRememberYoungI Remember

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.

Joni Mitchell

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While it is useful to rebut charges and get your arguments out in circulation, you have to understand that arguments and evidence have little impact on people as long as their feelings tilt them against you.

Jonathan Haidt

PeopleImpactLongYouFeelingsOut

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