Mark Twain Quotes
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Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.
Rachel Kushner -
What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
Nancy Carell -
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
Rachel McAdams -
I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?
Dan Deacon
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My first job, I worked at 'YM' and I had an extremely tough boss who made me cry every single day. But what I took away from that was how I would never be.
Rachel Zoe -
We live in a society where nothing is sacred.
Yvonne Strahovski -
If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.
Jack Welch -
If Benton had had an administration building with pillars it could have carved over the pillars: Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you guilty.
Randall Jarrell -
Most people don’t listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music By...
Randall Jarrell -
It is only through the ordinary that the extraordinary can make itself perceived.
P. L. Travers
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Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.
Alice Walker -
The life insurance industry is filled with good people who believe in their work and their companies, but who may never have challenged the assumptions underlying their efforts.
Andrew Tobias -
On the personal level, the people that follow you on Twitter are always nice to hear from.
Jim Rash -
I learned a lot in the naval officers' course. It gave me a lot.
Adam Neumann -
When I became the CEO of Burberry in July 2006, luxury was one of the fastest-growing sectors in the world.
Angela Ahrendts -
'I hear today's college women are 'prodigious.'''Prodigious? Is that what you heard?''Well, I read it in a magazine. It was something I wanted to believe.''The Jayster. Always a dreamer.'
Bret Easton Ellis
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Are you such a dreamer To put the world to rights? I'll stay home forever Where two and two always makes a five I'll lay down the tracks Sandbag and hide January has April's showers And two and two always makes a five It's the devil's way now There is no way out You can SCREAM and you can shout It is too late now Because... You have not been Payin' attention! Payin' attention! Payin' attention! Payin' attention! You have not been paying attention!
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace -
My favorite part of the experience of serving in Congress is knowing that my time and effort are spent for the greater good and for the betterment of our nation.
Jared Polis -
A rite of passage in America when you turn 50 and have good health insurance is a colonoscopy.
Brad Feld -
Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
Mark Twain