Barbara Demick Quotes

The Uighurs are a Turkic people more closely related to Uzbeks and Kazakhs than to Chinese.

Barbara Demick

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PeopleMoreChineseThanRelated

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

Jock Sturges

LifePeacePeopleMy LifeBeingWho

I write songs for people who drive in cars. I really do.

Melissa Etheridge

PeopleDriveWriteWhoSongsReally

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

Robert Benchley

DogPerseverancePetDownThreeBoy

If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.

Lou Reed

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Tom Landry is a perfectionist. If he was married to Raquel Welch, he'd expect her to cook.

Don Meredith

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As a child marooned in a post-war South London backwater with no ready cash and a bafflingly dysfunctional family, I had to glean my amusement wherever I could.

Christopher Fowler

FamilyChildReadyLondonWherever

Anyone with a pension or retirement is an investor in the stock market.

Brad Katsuyama

RetirementStock MarketMarketAnyone

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

Chuck Palahniuk

SuicideDifferenceOnlyPress

I had an explosion on my vocal chord.

Boy George

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I go to eat dinner with my folks when I'm home. I think that's the trick.

Brad Paisley

HomeDinnerThinkGoEatI Think

What Democrats haven't focused on are the kind of policies that would promote economic growth - such as making permanent the 2001/2003 tax cuts, opening up federal lands to more energy production, and reforming government to reduce its burden on business.

Bob Beauprez

GrowthBusinessGovernmentEnergy

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Bruce Lee

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