Mary Boykin Chesnut Quotes
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
Nadine Velazquez
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There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
Ram Shriram
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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
Ferdinand de Saussure
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
Walter Kirn
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
Dan Hill
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
Jack Nicholson
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I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.
Ted Ligety
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When a man sits in our jails for a number of years, and around him friends and family become angry, that is how we create terrorists.
Ada Yonath
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
Abbie Hoffman
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Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
Damien Hirst
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For me, standup will always be some part of my life, and other things will move around and find their place.
J. B. Smoove
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Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.
Lana Del Rey
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Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know, I've written a whole song in an hour.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III
Bad Meets Evil'
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The poetic image […] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with echoes.
Gaston Bachelard
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Of course designers inspired me, but I was more inspired by everyday people. People that I see walking down the street.
Zendaya
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I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We've always had an underdog vibe as a city, but that just makes us try harder, and I love our scrappiness and scruffiness.
Lisa Scottoline
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
Tammy Duckworth
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She died praying that she might die.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
