Djuna Barnes Quotes
A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?
Djuna Barnes
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I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.
Zach Anner
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I'm such a foodie, and I actually think I would rather lose my hearing than my taste.
Malin Akerman
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
Daisy Donovan
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Tackling malaria in a country like the Central African Republic is a huge uphill battle, and my experiences there have been a healthy dose of reality, fueling my own sense of urgency to do my part in reducing the preventable suffering of the incredible women I met.
Mandy Moore
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Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.
Nate Silver
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I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.
Karel Reisz
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What the world needs now is love, sweet love, It's the only thing that there's just too little of. What the world needs now is love, sweet love, No not just for some but for everyone.
Hal David
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Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90.
Karen Blixen
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When life hands you a lemon, say 'Oh yeah, I like lemons. What else you got?
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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'Regression testing'? What's that? If it compiles, it is good; if it boots up, it is perfect.
Linus Torvalds
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Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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They come to have a party for themselves, and we're kind of a house band for their party.
Jason Mraz
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Mama told me to make a special point to remember the best times of my life. There are so many hard things to live through, and latching on to the good things will give you strength to endure, she says. So I must remember this day. It is beautiful and this seems like the best time to live and the best place
Nancy E. Turner
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Beginning in the 1920s and 1930s, film has been a shadow thrown over the minds of all novelists. Ever since, novelists have strained to make themselves more relevant and, whether consciously or not, novel-writing has been influenced by cinematic doctrines - by turns, embracing and defying it.
Matthew Pearl
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I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
Pablo Neruda
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What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.
Oscar Wilde
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A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?
Djuna Barnes