Oksana Masters Quotes

It doesn't matter what kind of body you have, it's the determination and the spirit that's going to get you there. I want to prove that.

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• The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • World
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Community
  • Place
  • Individual

• When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Up
  • Think
  • Want

• A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Money
  • Truth

• Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Think
  • Adversity
  • Most

• In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!

  

  Ian Smith
  • World
  • Years
  • Everything

• I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Feeling
  • Desire
  • Write

• I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create 40,000 living wage jobs... the city's contracting power is huge.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Love
  • Power
  • City

• I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.

  

  Dana Hill
  • School
  • Kids
  • Today

• I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Feels
  • Right
  • Compare

• The tax relief package enacted in 2001 was central to pulling the economy out of the post 9-11 recession. It's the reason we've got low unemployment and have created more than two million jobs in the last year.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Economy
  • Year
  • Tax

• I think the presence of caste in India, how the villages are geographically structured on caste lines, is very different from China. The presence of an egalitarian culture is striking in a Chinese village.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Different
  • Think
  • Culture

• I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Out
  • Throw
  • Quickly

• Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I'm really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It's always been my dream to have people moshing at my gig, kind of that really feral element of the music coming out more. I love crowd-surfing.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Music
  • Dream

• I read a lot of news online, but I like buying a paper because I'll read an article I wouldn't normally read. And more often than not, the articles that you don't expect to care about are the ones that grab you.

  

  Eddie Kaye Thomas
  • You
  • Care
  • News

• I see Earth! It is so beautiful!

  

  Yuri Gagarin
  • Beautiful
  • Earth
  • Space

• I think once you write fiction, you put it out, and it can be interpreted in a variety of ways, some of which are going to be shocking to the writer.

  

  Mary Gaitskill

• When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?

  

  Kabir
  • Party
  • Wedding

• By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it's time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Time
  • Work
  • Live

• A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir - a constant source of energy, determination, and kindness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Energy
  • Compassion

• It doesn't matter what kind of body you have, it's the determination and the spirit that's going to get you there. I want to prove that.

  

  Oksana Masters
  • Determination