Mary Hunter Austin Quotes
Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.Mary Hunter Austin
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Chinese people age overnight.
Karl Pilkington -
Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
Zooey Deschanel -
Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
Gary Hamel -
I want to do that. That's my goal. I want to become a legend.
Rafael dos Anjos -
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 -
People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureheads, objects, like queens. It's a powerful yet politically powerless role.
Kate Williams
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If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.
Patricia Cornwell -
I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
Gavin Newsom -
If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.
Yves Behar -
Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
Walter Gropius -
Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.
Madison Smartt Bell -
I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
Mads Mikkelsen -
When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
Adam Grant -
I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.
Gabriel Macht -
The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
Ralph Fiennes
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Hey, did somebody step on a duck?
Jack Roy -
It is purposeless to tell Negroes they should not be enraged when they should be. Indeed, they will be mentally healthier if they do not suppress rage, but vent it constructively and use its energy peacefully but forcefully to cripple the operations of an oppressive society. Civil disobedience can utilize the militance wasted in riots to seize clothes or groceries many do not even want.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.
Joseph Fiennes -
Anyone who wants to be part of the political process should adopt values that are compatible with democracy.
Najib Razak -
There's something to be said for returning the whole syntax tree.
Larry Wall -
Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.
Mary Hunter Austin