Katherine Dunn Quotes
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I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
Oscar de la Renta -
You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
Taylor Swift -
It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
Garet Garrett -
The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
Earl Warren -
My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
Maeve Binchy -
I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
B. C. Forbes -
Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
Warren Zevon -
You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
Larry Dixon -
I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.
Zach Johnson The Fray -
The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
Gail Godwin -
There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
Vera Farmiga
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My childhood was appalling.
Taylor Caldwell -
On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.
A. N. Wilson -
I believe in a strong national defense. But it's my belief that neither Iraq nor Afghanistan poses a threat to national security, and we shouldn't be involved in either area.
Gary Johnson -
A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped.
Naomi Klein -
If I examine the circumstances which inspired me to write – and this is not mere self-indulgence, but a desire for accuracy – I see clearly that the starting point of it all for me was war.
J. M. G. Le Clezio -
We weren't One Hit Wonders. We had a few hits.
Gary Cherone Van Halen
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I have a Bolex, Aaton, Arriflex, Eyemo, Filmo, Mitchell, Photosonic, Beaulieu, Keystone - just about every movie camera you can think of.
James Jannard -
I'm not psychic. I cannot know what is in the mind of particular public figures.
John Bercow -
Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
Edgar Ramirez -
Boxing is good for the livelihood but mainly, money don't really mean nothing.
Muhammad Ali -
I make a timeless music. I think I've made my mark as a lyricist and as an innovator and as a tastemaker.
Terrence LeVarr Thornton -
Boxing is a formal, ritualized creation of crisis.
Katherine Dunn