Binyavanga Wainaina Quotes
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Art lies by its own artifice.
Ovid
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Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
Vince Lombardi
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Well, when The Black Keys make a record, I never really feel limited. To me, it seems the possibilities are always endless. The big difference has been playing live and being able to recreate every little part of the record.
Dan Auerbach
The Black Keys
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I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
Jack Kemp
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
Jack Kemp
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I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me – and it was such a backhanded compliment – they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'
Kate Winslet
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The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
C. Everett Koop
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Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.
Paris Hilton
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I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.
Ralph Fiennes
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I frequently am contacted by people who want to thank me for 'The Brady Bunch.' Whether they grew up during the show's original television run or are brand-new fans of the present generation, they tell me how important 'The Brady Bunch' has been in their lives.
Florence Henderson
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As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.
Barry Gibb
Bee Gees
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I had gross morning sickness til about 15 weeks and then gestational diabetes, and most annoyingly, from about week 20, I had pelvis issues, which saw me on crutches for the last five weeks of the pregnancy and has since developed into full-blown Osteitis Pubis and pelvic instability.
Zoe Foster Blake
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I wasn't a great background singer.
Faith Hill
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In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars.
Lakhdar Brahimi
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I've lost audiences, I've recovered them.
Carlos Fuentes
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The practice of declaring people FAIR GAME will cease. FAIR GAME may not appear on any Ethics Order. It causes bad public relations. This P/L does not cancel any policy on the treatment or handling of an SP.
L. Ron Hubbard
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The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and dearer it is.
Maimonides
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If you can visualize a bulldog which has just been kicked in the ribs and had its dinner sneaked by the cat, you will have Hildebrand Glossop as he now stood before me.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Look, it's moving. It's alive, it's alive, it's alive. It's moving. It's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive!
Garrett Fort
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Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state.
Martin McGuinness
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If you don't have your own goals, you'll be doomed to work toward someone else's.
Harry S Truman
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As an actor myself, I know we go where the work is, but I think it's sad the Lyric haven't found any homegrown talent.
Ian Beattie
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
Finley Peter Dunne
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I'm not even sure I want to use the term 'coming out.'
Binyavanga Wainaina
