Tara Westover Quotes

My brother once lit his leg on fire. And after, when the fire was finally out, his leg was covered in third-degree burns. And we made the decision - or my parents did - not to take him to the hospital but to treat that at home with a salve my mother made of comfrey and lobelia.

Tara Westover

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Oculus version three or five or whatever it ends up being is something that can be used unplugged - we'd have our own Android stuff and all that - but you could plug it into the PC and use that.

John Carmack

YouThreeWhateverUpOwnSomething

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

GloryEverythingDeedNaught

Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.

Robert Green Ingersoll

LoveCharacterSympathyLivingDuty

When I watch movies - when I watch 'Star Wars' - you want to watch the fun characters, the diversions.

Matthew Gray Gubler

FunYouWantMoviesWatchStar

You can build a place that is beautiful, but nobody feels comfortable sitting in it, and the kids aren't allowed to go into many of the rooms. Or a place can look lived in, but it doesn't please the eye.

Amor Towles

BeautifulEyeYouLookPlaceNobody

We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There has been a great amount of scholarship in the last 30 years about education in the Hellenistic world and women in the Hellenistic world. We now know how an upper-class woman was educated in her day.

Stacy Schiff

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Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies.

Stanley Baldwin

DayThinkNever ForgetYouForget

I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.

Tony Campolo

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I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.

Michael Nesmith

MusicI AmToughBackKindGoing

Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.

Josiah Royce

RespectWorldWillIndustryConsent

I sent Trump a handwritten note requesting an interview with my cell-phone number in it. That was a huge mistake. You should never, ever give your cell-phone number to Donald Trump. You know what he did with it? He put it on the Internet.

Jorge Ramos

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I sit, I think, I make some drawings. As a designer, you cannot retire totally.

Dieter Rams

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