Donald Barthelme Quotes
'How old are you Hogo.' 'Thirty-five Jane. A not unpleasant age to be.' 'You don’t mind then. That you are not young.' 'It has its buggy aspects as what does not?' 'You don’t mind then that you are sagging in the direction of death.' 'No, Jane.'Donald Barthelme
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
Rabih Alameddine -
I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
Zoe Kravitz -
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Immanuel Kant -
Everybody has their struggles.
Calvin Johnson -
I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
Ian Mckellen -
An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
Carl Van Vechten
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The Heisman is the biggest award I've ever won.
Barry Sanders -
This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
Kate Millett -
Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
Rachel Platten -
I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
A. N. Wilson -
Give the peasants neither life nor death.
Ieyasu Tokugawa
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My role models have kept on changing.
Kapil Dev -
Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.
J. G. Ballard -
America is a meritocracy.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Surviving is the only glory in war.
Samuel Fuller -
Whenever I start a 'Potter' film, I get these dreams. The last dream I had, I was in a war and the sky was blotted with broomsticks and I couldn't find my wand. It was so intense. I always have mental, intense, war wizard dreams when I'm doing the films.
Natalia Tena -
Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
Jackie Chan
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Every time the liberals pass a bill - I don't care what it involves - they stick criminal sanctions on it. They don't feel there is any way people are going to keep a law unless they can put them in jail.
Pat Robertson -
I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.
Harlan Coben -
Sometimes I wonder if my purpose on this earth is to be a role model. Look at my challenges as a gift, and my voice as tool.
Anastacia -
It's hard to give your song away. They're like your kids.
Bibi Bourelly -
I've been through a couple of mergers - they're not that fun. And it's easy to lose your focus on this grandiose mission you established for yourself as an independent company.
Jeremy Stoppelman -
'How old are you Hogo.' 'Thirty-five Jane. A not unpleasant age to be.' 'You don’t mind then. That you are not young.' 'It has its buggy aspects as what does not?' 'You don’t mind then that you are sagging in the direction of death.' 'No, Jane.'
Donald Barthelme