Duane Michals Quotes
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
W. H. Davies -
People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.
Victoria Abril -
Gymnastics is so huge in the Olympics. There are a lot of fans who want to see more.
Nadia Comaneci -
A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.
C. S. Forester -
In America, it has been proven that the bulk of spending money is in the hands of women between 60 and 80, so it's so stupid. The people who do have the time and money to shop are either retired or empty-nesters.
Iris Apfel -
Don't shop when you're hungry or in a grumpy mood. You need to feel happy and confident to make the best decisions.
Tamzin Merchant
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When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.
Namie Amuro -
In baseball... you don't stop learning until it's over.
Pablo Sandoval -
I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.
Kate Winslet -
Between Twitter and Facebook, early word of mouth for a film can destroy it immediately or take something you've never heard of and make it a huge hit.
Dana Brunetti -
Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
Wallace Stevens -
You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
Adam Gopnik
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Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.
Camille Paglia -
Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.
Carl Jung -
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. … It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It's a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.
Joanne Rowling -
'No gold or platt I was simply red from the years i been holdin' back'
Ludacris -
I don't want to be someone that, when people look back, they think, 'Yeah, cool, he made us jump around for a bit in 2010.'
Labrinth LSD
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I continually remind myself to live by a code. It's very important to me. I've got a bad temper.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
My prior stint at 'Newsweek' was a very different world. So it's what it's like to be in one of these kooky software startups as a grown up. It's not entirely pleasant! It's like, 'Oh, I don't fit.'
Daniel Lyons -
I didn't want to be a dancer. I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally.
Gene Kelly -
I don't like being a celebrity.
Alain Ducasse -
It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepreneur in India, because I partnered this Irish company in setting up India's first biotech company.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw -
To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.
Duane Michals