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Thing Quotes (page 186)

Simone Weil quote: "What a country calls its vital... interests are not things..."
What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. Simone Weil
I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things. Mary Hart
Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret. Ben Okri
Sitting behind the bench at games is the hardest thing I've ever had to go through because basketball is really most of my happiness. So when I can't go out there and exert energy and have fun and things like that, it kind of puts everything else into perspective. Chris Webber
I would have gone right ahead but the only thing, the only phenomenon that's going on now of course, which is different in my experiences, is that you are getting things planted in the Net by people about the Woman in White on the Net. That's not a nice change. Andrew Lloyd Webber
Jim Harrison quote: "Short things are short all over and long things are long all..."
Short things are short all over and long things are long all over. Jim Harrison
I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky. Clyde Tombaugh
Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it. Natalie du Toit
I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution. Barack Obama
Sydney J. Harris quote: "Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is..."
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. Sydney J. Harris
Lil Wayne quote: "I've been criticized for the things I chose and things I've..."
I've been criticized for the things I chose and things I've chosen to do. Lil Wayne
John Oates quote: "I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things..."
I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things that don't hit the headlines. John Oates
On the speech day, the production designer, who has a lot of say in things, and sometimes I didn't agree with him but I had to do what I was told, wanted the speech day to be all in neutral colours for the women, which was a good thing. Julie Harris
Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum. P. J. O'Rourke
If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me. Ed Harris

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