Washington Irving Quotes
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
Edmund White -
I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
Early Wynn -
My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.
Vano Merabishvili -
When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
Barry Levinson -
One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
Salman Rushdie -
We just feel like history repeats itself. You ain't never going to see nothing brand new; you're only going to see when records are broken. And we're here to just set records and set trends and follow the footsteps that have been shown to us.
Quavo Migos
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Every free day, every weekend, I am in a recording session. I'm very lucky to have such supportive people around me.
Sabrina Carpenter -
I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad.
Iain Duncan Smith -
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
W. H. Auden -
If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.
Jackie Mason -
The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
Umberto Eco
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I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.
Tatiana Maslany -
It's nice to know that people are paying attention to you on the other side of the ball, but it's also kind of sad because you feel like you're a man that's being hunted down by some vicious animal. I feel they're going to come after me and do whatever they can to shut down the run, and that makes a difference with me in going out and doing my job.
Emmitt Smith -
The Bible alone is the only authority that can bind the conscience of a person absolutely because it is the only authority that carries with it the intrinsic authority of God Himself.
R. C. Sproul -
When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
We know from Talmadge Hayer, one of the men who carried out the assassination, who was shot by Ruben X as he tried to flee the Audubon after shooting Malcolm X, we know that Hayer confessed years later to his Imam in prison that there had been a walk-through a week prior to February 21st [1965] at the Audubon Ballroom.
Manning Marable -
I love contemporary poetry because it moves between what we call poetry and what we call philosophy. It joins these fields and makes writing more natural, as in how it is lived in the person. We don’t separate thinking from feeling in real life, so why should we separate it in writing?
Etel Adnan
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What's the use of a high school education if you can't recall it when needed later on?
Hal Clement -
A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
Rudyard Kipling -
In order to lead a meaningful life, you need to cherish others, pay attention to human values and try to cultivate inner peace.
Dalai Lama -
The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
Washington Irving