David Means Quotes
Novels often thin themselves out to a watery hue - some even start that way - and at times seem to only ride along the surface of things, giving us what we already know, reporting the news that is just news.
Quotes to Explore
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My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.
Jack Kerouac
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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
Victoria Woodhull
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
Zeresenay Alemseged
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
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If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
Gary Player
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
Sakshi Tanwar
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
A. N. Wilson
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
Dan Savage
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I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.
Carly Patterson
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
Laura Wade
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By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
Adam Grant
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If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.
Barry Ritholtz
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
Ibrahim Babangida
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
Wally Lamb
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My wife is pretty geeky and will occasionally quote 'Anchorman' at me.
Adam McKay
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
Rachel Zoe
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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
Yayoi Kusama
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
Nancy Gibbs
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We are not giving up on the Coyotes in the Greater Phoenix Area... The team has got a number of options and is going to pursue them, so nobody should think that team is moving other than out of Glendale.
Gary Bettman
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I'd love for mental illness to be seen in the way that other horrible illnesses are. When people get cancer, very few parents will say, 'Oh I feel so bad for giving you so much unhealthy food over the years.'
Matt Haig
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There is grim irony in speaking of the freedom of contract of those who, because of their economic necessities, give their service for less than is needful to keep body and soul together.
Harlan Stone
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By giving our students practice in talking with others, we give them frames for thinking on their own.
Lev Vygotsky
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Novels often thin themselves out to a watery hue - some even start that way - and at times seem to only ride along the surface of things, giving us what we already know, reporting the news that is just news.
David Means