James Branch Cabell Quotes
I do that which I do in every place. Here also, at the gateway of that garden into which time has not entered, I fight with time my ever-losing battle, because to do that diverts me.
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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I was on Kanye's Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one of the three 'dancers' who couldn't dance and was more of an accessory than an individual. Vanessa was pretty involved. Her style is about a lot of standing. It's very simple but haunting.
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It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.
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Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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I'm always really curious about, you know, 'How do you deal with success psychologically?' and all this stuff.
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We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.
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I like new challenges and new experiences.
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I have friends who are movie stars, and I think it's just as hard a job as being a working actor. But it's a different job, and it's not the one I want.
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The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.
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I number my drafts, and by the time a book is done, I'll have 75 or 80 drafts of some sections.
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By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?
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Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.
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I do that which I do in every place. Here also, at the gateway of that garden into which time has not entered, I fight with time my ever-losing battle, because to do that diverts me.
