Philip Roth Quotes
Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of mythology.Philip Roth
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
Ted Danson -
Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
Malin Akerman -
My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
Vidal Sassoon -
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
Sallust -
I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
Dan O'Brien -
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
H. L. Mencken
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Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.
Ignatius of Antioch -
A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
K. Flay -
Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
P. J. O'Rourke -
People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
Patricia Kaas -
People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
Lao Tzu -
For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
Gary Clark Jr.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
Abraham Cahan -
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde -
For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.
Najib Razak -
I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
T Bone Burnett -
Being that I always perform, I started working out with a trainer to get that endurance and stamina. Now, I guess you could call me a gym rat.
Fat Joe -
My wife watches me like a hawk.
Carl Icahn
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I was nervous out there. It was pretty scary towards the end.
Brett Lee -
When I was in middle school, we had moved from Texas to Orange County. I didn't fit in, and it was pretty lonely.
Pedro Pascal -
The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these came at a time when life was at its most destructive. I think you write about what you need, on some level.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party -
I can think of only two or three songs out of hundreds I've recorded that I performed as originally written. I like to become intimate with the material and change it to suit me.
Glen Campbell -
By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of mythology.
Philip Roth