Djuna Barnes Quotes
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
Edmund Morgan -
If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
Walker Stapleton -
Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
Karl Pilkington -
I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.
A. R. Rahman -
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
Harold E. Varmus -
However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
Paracelsus -
I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
Cao Cao -
When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
Ted Yoho -
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
Karl Marx
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
Eartha Kitt -
I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
Victoria Principal -
I've got friends who are literally working alone on indie games that have no prospect of profit or commercial success. I've got guys working on iPhone games.
Warren Spector -
Expanding background checks will help create a uniform standard for all gun purchases and prevent criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining powerful weapons.
Gabrielle Giffords -
I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
Taylor Swift -
I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
Sakshi Tanwar
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I started going to exhibitions in Switzerland when I was 10 or 11. As a schoolboy, I would go every afternoon to see the long, thin figures of Giacometti.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it.
Joan Jett -
Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue: His faults lie open to the laws; let them, Not you, correct him.
William Shakespeare -
I think God has me on a path. I think he puts certain people in my life, and angels send messages to me, like, Kanye, I want you to say this, and I want you to say that, and I want you to talk to this girl here, and I don't want you to do this over here.
Kanye West -
History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.
Bob Barr -
Destiny and history are untidy.
Djuna Barnes