Edith Wharton Quotes
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.
Vanessa Paradis -
In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
Olivia Wilde -
Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
Zachary Levi -
There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.
Gary Neville -
It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
Yehuda Berg
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
Damon Albarn Blur -
It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
Sally Mann -
But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
Okky Madasari -
As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
Gary Bauer -
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
Zane Grey
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Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
Yoko Ono -
We grow small trying to be great.
E. Stanley Jones -
I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
Rachael Harris -
My refrigerator is full of kale and greens. I can't imagine something greasy, or eating meat.
Pamela Anderson -
The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan.
Barton Gellman
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Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking skills have progressed only from the 50th percentile of entering freshmen to about the 69th percentile.
Derek Bok -
I always do make a back story for myself, but I'm not sure how necessary it is. I just like to.
Gena Rowlands -
I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
Damian Marley -
My first banjo? My mother's sister, my aunt, lived about a mile from where we did, and she raised some hogs. And she had - her - the hog - the mother - they called the mother a sow - of a hog. And she had some pigs. Well, the pigs were real pretty, and I was going to high school and I was taking agriculture in school. And I sort of got a notion that I'd like to do that, raise some hogs. And so my aunt had this old banjo, and my mother told me, said, which do you want, the pig or a banjo? And each one of them's $5 each. I said, I'll just take the banjo.
Ralph Stanley -
Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
Edith Wharton