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?
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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.
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I'm such a foodie, and I actually think I would rather lose my hearing than my taste.
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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.'
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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.
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Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.
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I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.
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When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well.
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Europe and European identity is rooted in Christianity.
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Trump brings power to those who hate their lack of it, and his message is tonic to communities that have felt nothing but decline for decades.
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I still care a lot about my personal style, and since moving to New York and having a little more control over my own money, I've been able to make my 12-year-old fashion nerd dream comes true.
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I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before us, and to teach our sons and daughters to have respect for themselves.
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There is another form of selection best illustrated by the automatic telephone exchange. You dial a number and the machine selects and connects just one of a million possible stations. It does not run over them all. It pays attention only to a class given by a first digit, and so on; and thus proceeds rapidly and almost unerringly to the selected station.
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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.
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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.
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When life hands you a lemon, say 'Oh yeah, I like lemons. What else you got?
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'Regression testing'? What's that? If it compiles, it is good; if it boots up, it is perfect.
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Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.
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That books do not take the place of experience, and that learning is no substitute for genius, are two kindred phenomena; their common ground is that the abstract can never take the place of the perceptive.
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Nicknames are the most essential in life, more valuable than names.
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My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.
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A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.
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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?
