Philip Roth Quotes
Turned the wrong way around, the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied in 'History', harmless history, where everything unexpected in its own time is chronicled on the page as inevitable. The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.Philip Roth
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
Damon Galgut -
I went to a very progressive elementary school where I was heavily educated in civil rights. I remember learning about Harvey Milk when I was in sixth or seventh grade and being so inspired.
Olivia Wilde -
Everything begins with an idea.
Earl Nightingale -
'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.
Vicki Lawrence -
For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
Jack Canfield
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
Jack L. Chalker -
The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
Natalie Massenet -
My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
Halle Berry -
Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
D. H. Lawrence -
As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
Zainab Salbi -
The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
Gail Godwin
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I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.
Dan Kaminsky -
I sing all the time. But maybe nobody's hearing it, because I'm singing in my car or in my house or whatever. I don't need the roar of the crowd, and I don't need to hear cheers to feel validated.
Natalie Maines -
I don't ever want to feel complacent.
Taraji P. Henson -
Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. -
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney -
I had a couple CDs. But I never had that first concert experience, that first record thing.
Sam Hunt
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This is not that, and that is certainly not this, and at the same time an oyster stew is not stewed, and although they are made of the same things and even cooked almost the same way, an oyster soup should never be called a stew, nor stew soup.
M. F. K. Fisher -
I truly did feel that I owed it to my parents, my grandparents, to do whatever it was that I wanted, because if I wasn't happy, if I wasn't being true to myself, then I wasn't living fully. They had given up so much so that I could live at the level that so many people are just automatically born into.
Kelly Marie Tran -
Usually I don't think much in terms of interesting sounds. Although I think I want to get one of those whammy pedals, I forget what it's called and who makes it. It's got a whole bunch of different settings. You can play a note and it will raise the pitch when you push the pedal.
Mike Gordon -
I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.
Mary-Louise Parker -
There's a lot of people all over the world that talked about me.
Jake LaMotta -
Turned the wrong way around, the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied in 'History', harmless history, where everything unexpected in its own time is chronicled on the page as inevitable. The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.
Philip Roth