Donald Barthelme Quotes
The center will not hold if it has been spot-welded by an operator whose deepest concern is not with the weld but with his lottery ticket.
Donald Barthelme
Quotes to Explore
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And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.
Ed Miliband
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If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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When you're 21, you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40 and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.
Kate Winslet
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As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
Ottmar Hitzfeld
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Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient.
Fidel Castro
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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Foreigners can only fight with success in the summer. We can fight during any of the four seasons, so we have the weather on our side.
Zhang Zhidong
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I would love to have the honor to get to work with Meryl Streep. I love her and I love her work.
Bailee Madison
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'The Handmaid's Tale' is a human story, and women's rights are human rights, and it's all about equality, but at the end of the day, it's not equal.
Yvonne Strahovski
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I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.
Joanne Rowling
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Sometimes audiences want to see what we're doing to their world. It's our obligation sometimes to reflect it.
Taylor Sheridan
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If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.
Tara Brach
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Notice that much of what men do is also done by single mothers so appreciating what men do also helps us appreciate what single moms do.
Warren Farrell
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I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.
Paul Weller
Incognito
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On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak is the only prominent specific distinction, and it features conspicuously both in attacking behaviour, when the birds face each other and grip beaks, and also in courtship, when food is passed from the beak of the male to the beak of the female. Hence though the beak differences are primarily correlated with differences in food, secondarily they serve as specific recognition marks, and the birds have evolved behaviour patterns to this end.
David Lack
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Affordability is critical so that patients have access to medicines. At the same time, it's also important that we have the kind of incentives that allow us to do the kinds of studies that we need to do to go after these diseases like Alzheimer's.
Kenneth Frazier
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Dependence on the State became a virtue; dependence on oneself was derided as ‘rugged individualism.’
Frank Chodorov
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The center will not hold if it has been spot-welded by an operator whose deepest concern is not with the weld but with his lottery ticket.
Donald Barthelme
