"When Larry Wright won the Pulitzer for The Looming Tower we all strutted around for weeks, until some sourpuss among us noted that it was actually Larry, and not the rest of us, who won the prize."

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Elizabeth Crook

#Towers Quotes #Week Quotes #Looming Quotes

“My father is 100% Japanese and came to the United States when he was only 18 years old. My grandmother still resides in Japan, which has allowed me to travel to the roots of my ancestors with my father.”
“I love helping people; just being of service makes me happy!”
“No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.”
“I am not my hair. I am not this skin. I am not your expectations no. I am not my hair. I am not this skin. I am the SOUL that lives within”
“Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.”

Source : Lewis H. Lapham (1985). “High Technology and Human Freedom”
“Three women walk into a pub and say, `Hooray, we've colonised a male-dominated joke format'”
“But the mechanics of learning to 'throw your voice' are pretty simple. Anyone with a tongue, an upper palate, teeth, and a normal speaking voice can learn ventriloquism.”

Source : Jeff Dunham (2010). “All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me”, p.13, Penguin
“During the first formative centuries of its existence, Christianity was separated from and indeed antagonistic to the state, with which it only later became involved. From the lifetime of its founder, Islam was the state, and the identity of religion and government is indelibly stamped on the memories and awareness of the faithful from their own sacred writings, history, and experience.”

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