Djuna Barnes Quotes
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We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.
Fat Joe -
I was a campaign widow.
Laura Moser -
People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.
Dan Harmon -
I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
Kat Graham -
I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.
Warren Christopher -
The Supreme Court's most conservative Justices have presented themselves as great respecters of precedent and opponents of 'judicial activism' - of judges using the Constitution to strike down laws passed by the elected branches of government. If they are true to those principles, they should uphold rent control.
Adam Cohen
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'Transformers' gives people the ability to relax and rest for three hours. That's a substantial amount of time, given how plugged in to our devices we are. People don't give themselves enough time to sit down. They're no longer comfortable with themselves.
Jack Reynor -
I come from a mixed family, where my mother is art house cinema and my father is B-movie genre cinema. They're estranged, and I've been trying to bring them together for all of my career to one degree or another.
Quentin Tarantino -
'A man like that thinks that fear can win loyalty.''Plenty of masters with a lash who can testify it works.''Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.'
Orson Scott Card -
What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
Abraham Polonsky -
Ah, well, if they wanted their adultery, what did it matter to me? I hadn’t much room to talk, anyway, with my five-pound prostitutes who did a bunk and the Japanese girls who cost far less and didn’t do a bunk and whatever I was likely to pick up in Colombo.
Anthony Burgess -
Tara: Sweetie, you wouldn't blow off a class if your head was on fire.
Amber Benson
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People who understand basketball definitely appreciate what I bring to the table.
Tyson Chandler -
Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual - or even than that of the race.
Ellen Key -
There are lighter colors of granite and I like to break the rules.
Douglas Wilson -
Knowing how people will use something is essential.
Donald Norman -
Among Muslims, I think there are some who are very good and some hoodlums, like everywhere.
Brigitte Bardot -
Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.
Brad Henry
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It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!
Eugene O'Neill -
Working at something you don't care about is the very best way to waste your life.
Brian Tracy -
It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but rather more testing to act on it.
Jonathan Dimbleby -
It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.
Desmond Tutu -
The main thing in measuring integrity is someone's motive and intent, not how many records they sell. Our intent in Ministry was never to be big. We just wanted to make enough money to live and to buy a studio, which we have done in Austin.
Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs -
Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.
Djuna Barnes