Donald Barthelme Quotes
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When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.
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My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had the experience to be mature yet.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.
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Every time I touch the ball, I think I'm going to go all the way. I think I'm going to score a touchdown. I'm the runner I am because I think that I'm going to go all the way every single time I touch the ball.
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Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.
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I don't do meetings.
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Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the time.
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The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.
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I did the Kannada film when just out of school. I didn't know anything about the South Indian film industry at that time, and I did the film to earn some pocket money. I realised then I like acting.
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I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.
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You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.
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I love Harley Quinn. I do. I just love it.
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There's nothing anyone can do about Tiger Woods but look at his game and swoon.
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I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.
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Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.
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If there is such a thing as being conditioned by climate and geography, and I think there is, it is the West that has conditioned me. It has the forms and lights and colors that I respond to in nature and in art. If there is a western speech, I speak it; if there is a western character or personality, I am some variant of it; if there is a western culture in the small-c , anthropological sense, I have not escaped it. It has to have shaped me. I may even have contributed to it in minor ways, for culture is a pyramid to which each of us brings a stone.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.
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When I'm out with my girlfriends at the bar, and I see some young 18-year old boy, just for fun I say, 'Hi honey. Do you like girls? Do you like girls exclusively? Oh, good.'
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Poignance is all.
