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There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published w...
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What you call "the Golden Age tradition" of stringing stories together into novels was not so much a...
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EDWIDGE DANTICAT![]()
The comic novels I did when I was in my 20s had a harder edge - less sympathy for people. Or a sympa...
LYDIA MILLET![]()
The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and th...
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J. CHRISTOPHER HEROLD![]()
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
CHARLES V![]()
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.
CHARLES V To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse--German.
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These poor black people were left stranded in the city when federal government had resources readily...
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TOBY YOUNG![]()
As early as 1681-82, a group of Abenakis had accompanied the French explorer La Salle on his histori...
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JAMES STOCKDALE![]()
The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which ...
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Wherever you are, be all there.
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ELIZABETH STROUT![]()
It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice vers...
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JOAN MCCRARY We did go through a lot of hurt when the church split. But one of the surprising outcomes was that w...
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AVA DUVERNAY I reflect back and feel I was lucky enough to be a teenager in the '60s, with the music and the Brit...
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People who wear only ready-made clothes are apt to doubt the very existence of tailors; and this pai...
YUKIO MISHIMA![]()
Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, ...
HELENA BONHAM CARTER Thirty years ago we were nowhere. There were no agency C.E.O.'s, and it was a very bad business for ...
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ELDON RENAUD![]()
There were plotters, there was no doubt about it. Some had been ordinary people who'd had enough. So...
TERRY PRATCHETT No one could touch the home cooking of an Italian woman. French women, they are very intelligent, ve...
SIRIO MACCIONI![]()
when you are broken
and he has left you
do not question
whether you were
enough<...
RUPI KAUR![]()
Black progressives suffered major disillusionment with white progressives when our experiences of wo...
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FRISO ABBING![]()
As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk a...
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My parents, of Belgian-German extraction, were Belgian nationals who had taken refuge in England dur...
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EDWARD HAMMOND![]()
My assumption when I began writing was that you were never going to make any money. And you were nev...
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LUIGI IRDI![]()
If the French were German in their essence, then how the Germans would admire them!
FRANZ KAFKA![]()
What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the co...
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KERRY GREENWOOD It's very challenging work because of the level of contamination in the water. There were several to...
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OSKAR KOKOSCHKA My father was very interested in music, and when he and his brothers were young, they had a singing ...
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CHANTAL AKERMAN![]()
Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure mo...
BETHANY MCLEAN![]()
My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come t...
ERIC KANDEL
TIBOR FISCHER Rich people are often thought of as being dishonest if they were born without much money, and lazy i...
VIKRANT PARSAI I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.
WANG LEEHOM There was a casting couch in his office. His office was all in white. Behind the desk were his Oscar...
BERNARD DICK There was a casting couch in his office. His office was all in white. Behind the desk were his Oscar...
BERNARD F. DICK I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published w... L. RON HUBBARD
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published. CAROLINE B. COONEY Heaven is where the police are British, the mechanics German, the cooks are French, the lovers Itali...
ELIANE KIRCHNER That doesn't happen very often. She had a couple of shots where there were a couple of bounces, but ...
DAVE STRICKLIN As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that...
KAREN ALLEN
What you call "the Golden Age tradition" of stringing stories together into novels was not so much a... JAMES GUNN Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.
CHARLES PALLISER
The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly awar... DAVID HAREWOOD Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. ...
EDWIDGE DANTICAT
The comic novels I did when I was in my 20s had a harder edge - less sympathy for people. Or a sympa... LYDIA MILLET
The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and th... ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and th... ERNEST HEMINGWAY The English soldier was probably the worst-treated soldier in Europe, and judging from the English c...
J. CHRISTOPHER HEROLD
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. CHARLES V
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse. CHARLES V To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse--German.
JASON CHAMBERLAIN It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more a...
WALTER LORD
These poor black people were left stranded in the city when federal government had resources readily... JESSE JACKSON I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had u...
TOBY YOUNG
As early as 1681-82, a group of Abenakis had accompanied the French explorer La Salle on his histori... ADRIENNE MAYOR And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian governmen...
UMBERTO GUIDONI
Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in ... ORSON WELLES This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they a...
WERLEY NORTREUS People forget that there are villages and communities that are still speaking French all over Canada...
MARC-ANDRE GRONDIN It's been very grass roots. The neighborhood is diverse, but most of the performers were white, whit...
BARBARA HUMPHREY We couldn't generalize on the people. Some of them were known to be tough guys and they didn'...
JAMES STOCKDALE
The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which ... PHILIPPA GREGORY
Wherever you are, be all there. CRAIG GROESCHEL It was a very positive game. We were much more organized in this game and left Northeastern knowing ...
BRIAN DUROCHER [There's a business case for diversity that has nothing to do with money, Sen. Oliver told The Hill ...
DONALD OLIVER Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.
VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES
The Imperial Senate, ever conscious of the weight of public opinion resting on the tip of the pencil... CHRISTINA ENGELA There were days - she could remember this - when Henry would hold her hand as they walked home, midd...
ELIZABETH STROUT
It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice vers... FREDRIK BAJER They had a very simple life. We never had much money. Mom helped him and they were always involved i...
JOAN MCCRARY We did go through a lot of hurt when the church split. But one of the surprising outcomes was that w...
LINDA HANNA His menus were very simple. They were not overblown and elaborate in the Victorian sense. You could ...
ELIZABETH NOSEK
When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are... B. B. KING
I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published. CAROLINE B. COONEY [Only in the morning did he discover that there were also four armed German paratroopers in the bunk...
BOB HALL The season was to end with the patriotic song "Stars and Stripes Forever." Possibly, another reason ...
JOE SINAGRA
The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark. They brought ... CHIEF JOSEPH It was probably my fault that I had never asked them before if they wanted to be more involved, but ...
ANNE WALLACE
I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don't develop a mental illness b... JOHN FORBES NASH, JR.
They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too genero... DAVID SEDARIS It's very difficult playing against another Italian. Flavia and I are very good friends. We were tog...
FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE
You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ance... HENRY LOUIS GATES A lot of people were cheering us up when we were up there. They were laughing, dancing. They were ni...
DAX MAIER
Most people would agree that the E.U. is too bureaucratic, not transparent or democratic enough and ... NICOLA STURGEON
All black women aren't sassy, loud, difficult, or subservient. We are, in fact, very complex and... AVA DUVERNAY I reflect back and feel I was lucky enough to be a teenager in the '60s, with the music and the Brit...
TONY VIVEIROS There was smoke, and people were screaming and wanted to jump. When we came out there was nothing le...
CLAUDE CAMPS TV people are quite aggressively ambitious, and there are probably 10 people here who really want th...
PAUL SLAVIN
People who wear only ready-made clothes are apt to doubt the very existence of tailors; and this pai... YUKIO MISHIMA
Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, ... HELENA BONHAM CARTER Thirty years ago we were nowhere. There were no agency C.E.O.'s, and it was a very bad business for ...
CAROL EVANS When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and pe...
HANS ZIMMER Lloyd Alexander's tales were written and published when I was in diapers. Decades later, they re...
JAMES A. MOORE I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the p...
LARRY BRILLIANT Members of high seniority are very interested. There were a lot of people that were ... holding on t...
ELDON RENAUD
There were plotters, there was no doubt about it. Some had been ordinary people who'd had enough. So... TERRY PRATCHETT No one could touch the home cooking of an Italian woman. French women, they are very intelligent, ve...
SIRIO MACCIONI
when you are brokenand he has left you
do not question
whether you were
enough<...
RUPI KAUR
Black progressives suffered major disillusionment with white progressives when our experiences of wo... BELL HOOKS If German citizens, for example, who are vacationing in France, get robbed there, they can -- togeth...
FRISO ABBING
As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk a... RAINBOW ROWELL It wasn't that they were that much better than we were or we were so much worse than they were. We j...
HENRY CARTER
You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them. JEFFREY FRY
My parents, of Belgian-German extraction, were Belgian nationals who had taken refuge in England dur... CHRISTIAN DE DUVE It is perfectly serendipitous,' said the boy, descending the steps to the street. 'Fancy that—us m...
ELEANOR CATTON
When I left South Africa there were 10 million people - when I came back there were more than 40 mil... HUGH MASEKELA We played great character football in the second half. We had some kids, who are not starters (and) ...
DOUG KAY There was a renaissance of sorts in England at this time, although it's not been given top billing l...
DANNY DANZIGER There was very little left. It's bad enough losing your kids, but our kids were burned beyond recogn...
BOB STAUBLE The people who are most likely to buy online are probably the least loyal and most price-sensitive. ...
CRAIG WEBER Obviously, that contradicts what most people were led to believe when the results of the 1918 experi...
EDWARD HAMMOND
My assumption when I began writing was that you were never going to make any money. And you were nev... DOROTHY ALLISON Much of what Germany and France have done in the rescue of Greece has also helped German and French ...
MARIO MONTI Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japan...
CLARENCE NASH There are no more people on the train. Our concern was that there were people left in the car undern...
LUIGI IRDI
If the French were German in their essence, then how the Germans would admire them! FRANZ KAFKA
What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the co... LADY GREGORY There were a couple that had been hiring kids to do stuff on an extremely part-time basis, and there...
DAVID REYNOLDS This whole game, you were on the edge of your seat. We were up 5-1 and every guy on our bench knew t...
JOSH CIOCCO Clothes were terribly important in the '20s. They really were an arbiter of who you were and how...
KERRY GREENWOOD It's very challenging work because of the level of contamination in the water. There were several to...
MICHAEL FREEMAN In refugee camps around the world, I met people who were gone. They were still walking around but ha...
DEBORAH ELLIS Nobody got Punk'd and he was still in his season for that show when we were filming. So the kids...
PIPER PERABO There is no such thing as a German, French, or Anglo-American Expressionism! There are only young pe...
OSKAR KOKOSCHKA My father was very interested in music, and when he and his brothers were young, they had a singing ...
CARRIE MAE WEEMS Carolus V, Emperor of Rome, was wont to say that the Hispanic tongue was seemly for converse with Go...
MIKHAIL LOMONOSOV My grandparents were very well-educated people, but in the Jewish tradition. They knew everything ab...
CHANTAL AKERMAN
Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure mo... BETHANY MCLEAN
My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come t... ERIC KANDEL
To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good... 
The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for... 
In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an un... 
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. 
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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing t... 
To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the pla... 
People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician. 