Miranda July Quotes
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
Zadie Smith -
I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
Patrick Collison -
There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
Octavia Spencer -
I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
Wadada Leo Smith -
I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
M. Ward
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European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.
Tarja Halonen -
Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
Laura Amy Schlitz -
I have no new voices - they've all been used.
Hank Azaria -
Lying is the rule, not the exception.
Pamela Meyer -
My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
Karin Slaughter -
He's so interesting because you think you know Dennis Hopper, but you don't really know Dennis Hopper. I don't really know Dennis Hopper, I just know him from the silver screen.
Nathan Lane
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On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.
Viggo Mortensen -
My eldest son George had acute myeloid leukaemia when he was a tiny baby, he is now 20 and doing very well. He is a mini-miracle in many ways.
Gary Lineker -
To a great experience one thing is essential - an experiencing nature.
Walter Bagehot -
Before 1959, some Americans saw Cuba as something to exploit, ignored poverty, enabled corruption. And since 1959, we’ve been shadow-boxers in this battle of geopolitics and personalities. I know the history, but I refuse to be trapped by it.
Barack Obama -
The ways we miss our lives are life.
Randall Jarrell -
The opposite of pragmatism is not idealism. It’s wishful thinking.
Barney Frank
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All of my songwriting success happened within a four month time span, and my record label deal happened within the next three months.
Bibi Bourelly -
I would like to sit down with Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, PJ Harvey, and Bjork. That would be a good dinner in my mind. Strong women. I think I would enjoy that.
Freja Beha Erichsen -
I loved operations, and I loved operations far from the headquarters. I had no passion for corporate.
Jean-Pascal Tricoire -
Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people? (16 October 1939)
Eleanor Roosevelt -
I still really love the world and the universe and the mythology of 'Halo.' If I was given control, I would really like to do that film. But that's the problem. When something pre-exists, there's this idea of my own interpretation versus 150 other people involved with the film's interpretation of the same intellectual property.
Neill Blomkamp -
Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.
Miranda July