Rachel Cusk Quotes

I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.

Rachel Cusk

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The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

Michael Faraday

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I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.

Stephen Hawking

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I think my mother's family came on the Mayflower from England - D.A.R., you know.

Sissy Spacek

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I think it's a good thing for everybody that we see the entire world reflected back at us on our screens.

Ruth Negga

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A feeling for equal rights for other human beings cannot exist in adults if a feeling for authority is not implanted in them during childhood. Otherwise, adults will never become mature enough to recognize the rights of others.

Rudolf Steiner

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

Mignon McLaughlin

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I despise stereotypes. A gay man can be a macho athlete, or he can be an interior designer or any career in between.

Lori Foster

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You're either on team Republican or team Democrat, and it's the idea that one of these sides has a perfect record of being correct and is worth supporting on 100% of the causes. I find that kind of thinking extremely dangerous and very intellectually dishonest.

Jonathan Hickman

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I'm a huge Wu-Tang fan.

Dhani Harrison

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By the end of 2001, between 100,000 to 150,000 Algerians had died in the civil war, as well as 120 foreigners. The cost to the economy ran into billions of dollars. And all this in spite of a tough, 120,000-strong army backed by 80,000 police.

Alistair Horne

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As I look into the future, I see radical changes in both how people 'attain beauty,' and how the world perceives beauty. In general, I believe traditional beauty will be less valuable - and more uniqueness will be heralded.

Tyra Banks

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Sometimes I journal three pages, sometimes I journal thirty pages, but I'm writing all the time, and whatever's happening is happening in real time for me.

Nikki Sixx

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