Barbara Demick Quotes

The East Turkestan Islamic Movement, named for an old Uighur name for Xinjiang, is a shadowy group that operates largely out of Afghanistan and Pakistan and is devoted to expelling the Chinese Communist Party from northwestern China.

Barbara Demick

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Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

Jim Rohn

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I'd go dance at talent shows, and because I was young I had the upper hand on a lot of other crews. People thought it was cute. I used that to my advantage.

Jermaine Dupri

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It would be fantastic to have the two top-ranked players in the world playing out of the same club.

John Higgins

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The '70s were a different time as far as parenting was concerned. People left their kids in the car with the windows cracked while they went to the grocery store.

Ann Patchett

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I wanted to win the gold medal and then go home and further my education in college. I had no intentions whatsoever to become a professional fighter because I had heard horror stories about former boxers who made money but, in the end, ended up with nothing. I didn't want to be one of those guys.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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I think the thing that keeps us motivated is challenging ourselves to see if we can be better than we've been before and seeing if we can stumble upon a magic that wasn't there before - whether it's a song, a performance, or a track that lights us up the way the first few records did.

Jay DeMarcus

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I don't want to be a negative piece of barbed wire sitting up in the booth with all the answers. I think that's a turn-off.

Jon Gruden

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I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.

Dennis Chavez

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There's a persona that musicians carry with them. I like to find what's under the persona.

Allison Anders

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Many people believe that introversion is about being antisocial, and that's really a misperception. Because actually it's just that introverts are differently social. So they would prefer to have a glass of wine with a close friend as opposed to going to a loud party full of strangers.

Susan Cain

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With Star Wars fans, there's so much enthusiasm, and it's a completely different generation now.

Peter Mayhew

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I was about two years old when I first started drawing recognizable characters.

Seth MacFarlane

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