David Stras Quotes
As anyone familiar with my scholarship knows, I am not a huge fan of inherent powers in most contexts.
David Stras
Quotes to Explore
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In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.
Larry Niven
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If I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be like Madonna.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.
Paloma Faith
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I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
P. J. Harvey
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Joseph Warren, like a lot of revolutionary leaders, was into Enlightenment literature.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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The intellectual bourgeois of the old Empire - tepid and unimaginative, mentally slow, arrogant, and incorrectly trained - has proven his incapacity to be the bearer of German culture. His benumbed world is now toppled, its spirit is overthrown, and is in the midst of being recast into a new mold.
Walter Gropius
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Spite, spite, is the word of your undoing!
Arthur Miller
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Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
Laurence Sterne
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In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library stacks to see where my novels would eventually be filed. It was right after someone named Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. So I grabbed a Vonnegut book, 'Breakfast of Champions' and immediately fell in love.
Jess Walter
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Colin Kaepernick is one of the leaders in the movement for black lives. His role as an athlete and activist is not only motivating but inspiring.
Patrisse Cullors
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Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.
Chuck Noll
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For one year, I was Keith Mitchell Coogan on my headshots. The next year, I was just Keith Coogan. And I have gone by that ever since, maybe 1984 or 1985. That is my mother's maiden name, and it was out of reverence for my grandfather.
Keith Coogan
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See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss.
Philip James Bailey
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Wait, I thought to myself! He wants to wait until everything that once was dear to him is trampled under foot.
Anna Seghers
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You can play professional lacrosse, but they make less than a teacher's salary now. I always thought about that. And it's a very difficult career, a short career, as a pro athlete.
Nash Grier
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You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch other people, but you never watch yourself because you strive against loneliness. If you read a book, or shuffle a deck of cards, or care for a dog, you are avoiding yourself. The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all. If it were otherwise, men would never have bothered to make an alphabet, nor to have fashioned words out of what were only animal sounds, nor to have crossed continents - each man to see what the other looked like.
Beryl Markham
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As anyone familiar with my scholarship knows, I am not a huge fan of inherent powers in most contexts.
David Stras
