Ellen Willis Quotes
I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.
Ellen Willis
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I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.
Ralph Fiennes
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We opened for the Kinks, the Beach Boys, the Guess Who, Chuck Berry, Sha Na Na. We opened for Cheech and Chong - I opened for Cheech, and Don opened for Chong.
Walter Becker
Steely Dan
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I embraced everything that I thought would hold me back from pursuing my dreams and used my insecurities to give me the courage to inspire and advocate for others who possessed many of the same insecurities I had.
La'Porsha Renae
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
Aaron Sorkin
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Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
Mahatma Gandhi
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You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night.
Damian Lewis
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I'm from Hollywood; I'm too dumb to be nervous about New York.
Yvonne De Carlo
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
E. F. Schumacher
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If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.
Walter Becker
China Crisis
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I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.
Vin Diesel
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Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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Holy Joe: And on the day of judgment everything will be replayed, even your thoughts
Jack Chick
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She had come to Aka to learn how to sing this world's tune, to dance its dance; and at last, she thought, away from the city's endless noise, she was beginning to hear the music and to learn how to move to it.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I hate that stupid old pickup truckYou never let me drive.You're a redneck heartbreakWho's really bad at lying.So watch me strike a matchOn all my wasted time.As far as I'm concerned you'reJust another picture to burn.
Taylor Swift
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SPORT Magazine's All-Time All Stars (Quentin Reynolds)
Lou Gehrig
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Men are made fools by the gleaming limbs of women, and, lo, in a minute they are become discolored carnelians. A trifle, a little, the likeness of a dream. And death comes as the end.
Agatha Christie
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Through them his paintings I breathe again.
Clyfford Still
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The only thing you can do is prepare the best you can and then just accept... stuff happens.
Carlos Condit
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I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.
Omar Epps
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In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion - not even for Shiites, who are forced by Iran's theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules.
Elliott Abrams
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I just don't feel like I have to explain myself.
Dolly Parton
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
Saint Augustine
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I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.
Ellen Willis
