"We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy."

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Source : "Australia pledges help, support" by Grant Holloway, cnn.com. September 11, 2001.

Helen Clark

#Condolences Quotes #America Quotes #People Quotes

“All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.”
“I grew up playing the guitar. I started when I was nine, and by the time I was nine and a half or ten, I was doing seven or eight hours' practice every day. I did two hours' practice at six o'clock in the morning before I went to school, and another two hours as soon as I got home from school in the afternoon. Then I did four hours at night before I went to bed. I did that until I was fourteen or fifteen.”
“When you're eleven you think every idea is born with you, that no one ever tried it the right way before. Your example, your own honesty, will make you a hero to everyone who knows you - and better, it will make people come to their senses and stop telling vicious lies about each other.”

Source : Elana Dykewomon (2013). “Beyond the Pale: A Novel”, p.42, Open Road Media
“Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set in time, because it is founded on a much higher degree of realism--has at its disposal more means of manipulating reality and of modifying it from within. The film-maker is no longer the competitor of the painter and the playwright, he is, at last the equal of the novelist”
“Luck is largely a matter of paying attention.”
“Loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I'm not complaining. Thanks to some inexplicable universal guiding force, it is always the worthless things we lose - slough off, like a moulting snake. Losing and losing again, is the very basis of the process, til all we are left with is the bare essence of human existence.”
“Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. And everything that isn't fun is dangerous too. It's impossible to be alive and safe.”
“I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they had their own experiences. He wanted us to discover the world for ourselves.”

Source : "Interview: Ahmet Zappa" by Sharon Krum, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.

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