Elizabeth McCracken Quotes
Tweeting about objects means I don't need to bid on them, which is a blessing. Buying something is a way of saying, 'Look at this!' So is tweeting. So, I guess, is writing fiction.Elizabeth McCracken
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I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
Jackie Kennedy -
What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
Pat Cadigan -
Robots are good at things that are structured.
Vijay Kumar -
Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
Wendy Kopp -
The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
Barbara Corcoran -
I never feel there's anything I can't do.
Daniel Clowes
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I never said most of the things I said.
Yogi Berra -
My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
Farrah Fawcett -
Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
Olympia Brown -
The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
Pat Conroy -
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde -
When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
Dan Gilbert -
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
E. M. Forster -
You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
Caitlin Stasey -
I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.
J. G. Ballard -
Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
Sam Levenson
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My entire career stands on the strong pillars of women-oriented films. This stems from the fact that I am sensitive to the entire aura and mystique of a woman and womanhood.
Madhur Bhandarkar -
I'd always dabbled in acting.
Nelsan Ellis -
I like thieves. Some of my best friends are thieves. Why, just last week we had the president of the bank over for dinner.
W. C. Fields -
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
Isaac Asimov -
I don't want to be famous or recognizable. I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet... I've been writing pop songs for pop stars for a couple years and see what their lives are like, and that's just not something I want.
Sia LSD -
Tweeting about objects means I don't need to bid on them, which is a blessing. Buying something is a way of saying, 'Look at this!' So is tweeting. So, I guess, is writing fiction.
Elizabeth McCracken