Daniel Handler Quotes
I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the sperm whale loves the flavor of naval uniforms.Daniel Handler
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People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
Kate Winslet -
I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.
Imogen Poots -
In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
Zach McGowan -
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Edmund Burke -
I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
Natasha Trethewey
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Kids, don't be too big to accept advice.
Hack Wilson -
What is cool today is not going to be cool tomorrow, and what wasn't cool yesterday is going to be cool tomorrow.
Zendaya -
I would rather make feature movies because, let's face it, you take more time. You take seven days to do a show, and you take three or four months to do a movie.
Farrah Fawcett -
Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.
Malala Yousafzai -
The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall.
Malcolm Gladwell -
High-quality public education - combined with other appropriate support, as needed - is the best way to achieve the Oregon Business Plan's goal of reducing the number of people living in poverty.
Kate Brown
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I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television.
Ira Glass -
One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp.
Ed Wood -
Food plays a large part in our weekend, but on a Friday evening, I'll make us something simple for tea. I might have a wee glass of wine.
Victoria Pendleton -
All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood.
Barbara Broccoli -
I've always liked to go down a different path. Being a woman of color, I never followed a cookie cutter way.
Halle Berry -
'We should let love be uppermost in our hearts because all our doings without love are nothing.'
T. B. Joshua
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You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it
Faith Ringgold -
All we need do with nuclear waste is dilute it to a low radiation level and sprinkle it over the ocean - or even over America after hormesis is better understood and verified with respect to more diseases.
Arthur B. Robinson -
I read more widely. I made friends more widely. I wore more red. I stayed home on Sundays. I did things that were never in the realm of possible things to do before. That was a real desert experience for me.
Barbara Brown Taylor -
I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.
Itzhak Perlman -
I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the sperm whale loves the flavor of naval uniforms.
Daniel Handler