Preston Sturges Quotes
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.
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I do or die, but I never cancel out.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.
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Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones.
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Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
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Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.
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The only journey is the one within.
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My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'
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I fall asleep everywhere! Someone recently asked if they could publish a book of pictures of me sleeping because there are so many.
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I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through the research that I do, the reading.
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My mother is really the person I learned to curse from. She discourages me from saying that in interviews. But it's true.
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I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.
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We had admired the presidential palace and parliament houses, paused beside the striking India Gate, inspected the 16th Century Humayun's Tomb-a forerunner to the Taj Mahal-and cruised past scores of international embassies.
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He is not bound so tightly by tradition that he will refuse a good idea simply for it being new, and not so wild that he would take a bad idea simply because it is new.
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I am really more interested in questions than in giving answers.
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To recognize that you are radically free, in Sartre's sense, but then to live as if you weren't, is to live in bad faith, in denial of what you know to be true. And that's not something anyone can sensibly want to do.
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I know enough to know that when you're in a pickle... call Mom.
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I should have had the pickle.
