Djuna Barnes Quotes
New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
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He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
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Yeah, I have animosity, a chip on my shoulder. But I love, too.
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
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You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.
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In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.
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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
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God does arithmetic.
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
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I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema.
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In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.
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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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Having competed themselves, my father and my uncle are very passionate about motorsport, so I inherited it from them.
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Besides, many Islamic movements will change as soon as they gain political responsibility. I'm not at all pessimistic in this regard. Just think of Turkey, where the Islamists are now behaving like a sort of Christian Democratic party in Europe.
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I happily cling to my guns and my God, even if President Obama thinks that that is a simpleminded thing in his elitist heart.
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By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.
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My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.
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New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
