J. G. Ballard Quotes
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I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
Harold Brodkey -
Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
Carine Roitfeld -
I read fashion magazines all the time. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.
Becki Newton -
And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Walt Whitman -
The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
Ed Asner -
I love sport and will do just about anything. Someone said they'd had a go at skiing off a mountain with a parachute, and that sounds great!
Victoria Pendleton
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Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.
Fareed Zakaria -
I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.
Eddie Rickenbacker -
Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
H. L. Mencken -
When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
We ought to be able to forgo the constant need to raise money and just focus on working together to solve the problems this country faces.
Ted Deutch -
Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
W. H. Davies
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I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.
Tavi Gevinson -
TV is starting to become such a collective experience again. People are watching it on their own time, rather than being on a schedule. Netflix offers the easy opportunity to watch as much as you can.
Landon Liboiron -
I'm absolutely convinced that the very small global warming we are experiencing is the result of natural causes. It's a cyclical phenomenon in the history of the Earth. The role of man is very small, almost negligible.
Vaclav Klaus -
I have a lot of friends that are ex-Miss Alabamas and ex-Miss Georgias.
Fannie Flagg -
I'm always late.
Sade Adu -
A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
Umberto Eco
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There were times my mom and I butted heads - over my curfew, over something like that. Whenever we would hit these moments of emotional backfire, she would say, 'You just don't understand what it's like to be a mother... I could never handle losing you.' I was like, 'OK, but just, like, chill out.'
Brie Larson -
It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
Carla Bley -
Looking back at the worst times, it always seems that they were times in which there were people who believed with absolute faith and absolute dogmatism in something. And they were so serious in this matter that they insisted that the rest of the world agree with them. And then they would do things that were directly inconsistent with their own beliefs in order to maintain that what they said was true.
Richard Feynman -
Sooner or later, all games become serious.
J. G. Ballard