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Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person who made the discovery. I find this path to be voyeuristic but not enlightening. Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Whether in print or other media, a good biography is more than a court record or a stringing together of already familiar sources. It breathes life into the subject. Noel Riley Fitch
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Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. The living images become only remote facts of a distant time or place. Furthermore, it is never difficult to demonstrate that as science and history, mythology is absurd. Joseph Campbell
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There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country, and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs. Will Rogers
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King Juan Carlos would be worthy of a full biography as a major player in his country's history. Alas, my Spanish is not good enough to offer myself! Antonia Fraser
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He was one of the first to treat these people as serious American writers, ... Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac.
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I think that when Tolkien created Gollum and the ring, he even expressed in his biography that he never really knew what he created until he went back and looked at it.
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I don't consider 'American Rose' to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-century America, told through Gypsy's tumultuous life - it's 'Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.' Karen Abbott
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I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is a great book. Denis O'Hare
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When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was George Gamow's 'One Two Three ... Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science.' Mark Frauenfelder
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The performance is part of a larger picture. Getting up and performing poetry in front of big crowds is another way for these kids to view their lives from a different perspective, and we want the kids in our program 20 years from now to be reading the books some of these kids have written.
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There are books up there I haven't read for many years but I wouldn't put them out. I never know when I might want to read them again. Norman MacCaig
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There are books on HTML, JavaScript, Java, ActiveX, and all sorts of other geeky subjects. But not only don't you need to understand these things in order to set up a Web site; you can read a dozen such books, and you still won't know everything you need to do.
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We're in favor of any program that can give our books more exposure.
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We started off in the Oak Hill Flea Market, about 1988, selling just about everything, but after a short period of time we found that books sold best. After a while we just got too big for the flea market and since my wife and I always loved books and reading, the natural progression was for us to open a bookstore.
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Where one burns books, one will soon burn people. Heinrich Heine
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I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love. Nina Jacobson
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When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother was always telling him that he should write them down, but he would say, 'Well, they've all been done before. There are so many blooming books in the world - why should I write another one?' Nicolas Roeg
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We know we've got work to do, but we're finally getting to the point where Worcester has really bought into the Blackstone. It's sort of an enlightened self-interest, and it's incredible. Stephen Bishop
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Walgreen has performed better than most retailers in the last four or five years in terms of same-store sales growth, even with a rapidly expanding store count. They bought some great locations and the fact they?re open 24/7 is helping drive food sales.
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The people who bought in 2003 or sooner ... they generally have enough equity that they're going to do all right.
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We've already been there and bought blow-dryers. We forgot them.
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We've all bought into it. It's the key to us winning the series. Most of their offence is developed out of the neutral zone. We have to do it. They are so good at finding those holes. We think it's something that has to be done. Shawn Horcoff
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I was taken to one place by a director, and he bought me a lap dance. Lexa Doig
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I always liked performing in front of my parents' friends. My dad bought me a karaoke machine, and I would put on a Michael Jackson song like 'Thriller,' and I would come out with, like, a hat and a jacket, and, like, moonwalk in my socks, so I was always performing. Nolan Sotillo
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I want to see my grandchildren grow up. I want to be there for my friends. I want to be able to love the person in my life. I want to work. I want to do something I've never done, which is save money. I've never bought anything. I have nothing. Marianne Faithfull
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When we were working on 'Looking' in San Francisco, I bought a new bike from Mission Bicycle Company, which I'm completely in love with. Murray Bartlett
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Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles. Charlie Chaplin
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Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.
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So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!
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You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.
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Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.
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Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.
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Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. Charles Dudley Warner
life political politics
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. Charles de Gaulle
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We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us. Charles de Lint
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When I was a little girl, I lived for modeling and fashion - I used to love, love, love modeling. Chanel Iman
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If genetic research doesn't seemed to have lived up to its therapeutic promise, it's because sequencing is just too slow and expensive.
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I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere. Ta-Nehisi Coates
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We use the Whitman Massacre as a representation for a lot of the struggles between the incoming settlers and the Native Americans who lived here.
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I love the way the game of golf is lived and played in Scotland. I always have. Tom Watson
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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
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She doesn't seem to have been the society type or one to flaunt her wealth, but she lived well.
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For years, the six of us lived in a two-bedroom house. Stella McCartney
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He was just a little bitty toddler when he lived here.
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Bali and the Aman resorts are all very luxurious, great places to go. Diane von Furstenberg
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Turks and Caicos is one of my favorite places to go. I've been to some really cool places and it started out when I was young by wanting to go to different places. Dhani Jones
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Morocco is the greatest. I should be getting money from the Moroccans because I'm just telling everyone that it's a wonderful place to go. Bill Murray
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The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living. P. J. O'Rourke
places
When I look back, there are so many places where we can improve.
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There's a great place to go when you're broke--to work! Dave Ramsey
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There are tons of wonderful places to eat in London. Yotam Ottolenghi
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Most people, when they meet me, one of the first things they say is, 'Why would you voluntarily subject yourself to war? Why would you go into these places where you know there's a risk of getting killed?' Lynsey Addario
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There are places throughout the state that are a little softer than they've been.