James Joyce Quotes
She dealt with moral problems the way a cleaver deals with meat: and in this case she had made up her mind.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
Ed Helms
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Jackie Robinson
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
Gabby Douglas
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
Dambisa Moyo
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
P. J. O'Rourke
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
B. Carroll Reece
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
Abbas Kiarostami
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
Adam Hochschild
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
Kate Spade
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
M. F. Husain
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VR is going to become something mainstream, but it's not going to happen right away. You just don't have the horsepower to make it happen on a device, much less a cheap enough and comfortable enough device that a normal consumer is going to want to have.
Palmer Luckey
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I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.
Kate Christensen
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
Wayne Coyne
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I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.
R. Kelly
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I think that when you are on a four-inch balance beam, you don't care about laughing or smiling or waving to the crowd because you're going to be down in a second.
Nadia Comaneci
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
Campbell Scott
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
Oscar Wilde
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My main focus is to help people through music.
Candice Glover
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It's important for a lot of young black males to value swagger over intelligence. Swagger is important, but intelligence must come before the swagger.
Laurence Fishburne
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I'd never seen Rigondeaux's face without it being obscured by headgear or a photograph of Fidel he was holding up after winning a tournament. Finally I saw him, only to recognize the saddest face I'd ever seen in Cuba.
Brin-Jonathan Butler
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I've been involved in the offering-up-adoption-as-another-choice business for a long time.
John Schneider
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I knew that Trump was ghastly. I knew I'd vote for Hillary if I had a vote.
Mary Beard
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She dealt with moral problems the way a cleaver deals with meat: and in this case she had made up her mind.
James Joyce