Poppy Z. Brite Quotes
My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.Poppy Z. Brite
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
Mae West -
I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
Action Bronson -
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
Barbara Walters -
Gee I don't know, I just want to get home.
Dale Murphy -
I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
Odell Beckham, Jr. -
The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
Fetty Wap
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All the musicians I loved growing up were men. I loved Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger. I loved Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Even today, I love Van McCann from Catfish and the Bottlemen and Matt Healy from The 1975.
Halsey -
You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
Iris Apfel -
But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.
Ada Yonath -
Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
P. J. O'Rourke -
When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
Gary Cole
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'Idol' was groundbreaking television. I am very fortunate to have won the show at the time. 'Idol' changed my life, and I am thankful.
Taylor Hicks -
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln -
It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
Samantha Bee -
On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
Patrick O'Brian -
In 1996, Al Jazeera was the first TV station in the Arab world to allow Israelis to appear on the screen and express their views and address the Arab world. Before that, Arab broadcasters did not allow what was perceived as the enemy to appear on the screen.
Wadah Khanfar -
I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.
Rachel Kushner
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In the old dramas it was love that had to be sacrificed to painful duty. In the modern instance the sacrifice is at the shrine of what William James called 'the Bitch Goddess, Success.' Love is to be abandoned for the stern pursuit of newspaper notoriety and dollars.
Aldous Huxley -
I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.
Lord Hailsham -
For me the only training in Swaraj we need is the ability to defend ourselves against the whole world and to live our natural life in perfect freedom, even though it may be full of defects. Good government is no substitute for self-government.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Indeed, the frequency of crashes in the Monte Carlo simulations was much smaller than the frequency of crashes in the real data: if one of the most frequently used benchmarks of the industry is incapable of reproducing the observed frequency of crashes, this indeed means that there is something to explain that may require new concepts and methods.
Didier Sornette -
Books are humanity in print.
Barbara Tuchman -
My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.
Poppy Z. Brite