Elyn Saks Quotes
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Salvador Dali -
A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
Barbara Cartland -
I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
Aaron Neville -
I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.
Ottessa Moshfegh -
Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
Nat King Cole -
Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
Orson F. Whitney
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
Hanya Yanagihara -
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
Ramsey Clark -
I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
Sam Heughan -
We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
M. H. Abrams -
I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
Kate Millett -
A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.
Jack Nicholson
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
Natan Sharansky -
The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
Mae West -
I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
Octavia E. Butler -
Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
A. J. P. Taylor -
I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
Natalia Vodianova -
Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.
Damon Hill
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I was bartending for a long time and going on auditions and was constantly being rebuffed.
Mark Ruffalo -
I'm an athlete, so I can get up one day and run and it wouldn't bother me. I don't get the time because I work for long hours every day. Being constantly on the move itself helps me stay fit. I don't go to a gym. I use the stairs, not the lift. I'm not into fitness, but I feel I should start, as it's healthy.
Genelia D'Souza -
No pit is so deep that He is not deeper still; with Jesus even in our darkest moments, the best remains and the very best is yet to be.
Corrie Ten Boom -
When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
Gary Hamel -
Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust.
Elyn Saks