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Owning It Quotes (page 171)

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. Angela Carter
I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it. Bai Ling
Barack Obama is like the old joke about boats. The two best days of owning a boat are the day you buy it and the day you sell it. Howie Carr
I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from. Caleb Carr
Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent. Alejo Carpentier
Joe Simon quote: "Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms."
Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms. Joe Simon
David Simon quote: "A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf,..."
A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy. David Simon
Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights. Thomas Carlyle
Alex Lifeson quote: "If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have..."
If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms. Alex Lifeson
I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security. Joe Lieberman
Orson Scott Card quote: "One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely..."
One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself. Orson Scott Card
C. S. Lewis quote: "This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of..."
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. C. S. Lewis
The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute. Robert Capa
For me, I don't like it when there is too much interference in our lives. We're not children. It is our own life in our hands. Eric Cantona
Sam Levenson quote: "Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It..."
Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children. Sam Levenson

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