Pierce Brown Quotes
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
Lalla Ward -
The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
Vikram Patel -
A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll be a dismantling of the present broadcasting structure, which is far too limited and limiting.
J. G. Ballard -
If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.
J. Cole -
Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
Rachel Brosnahan -
Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
Barbra Streisand
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You can blame my mom for some of my worst fashion moments. She used to dress me and my sister in a lot of patterns. Like, she would put me in striped stockings with a floral dress. Like, why are you doing that to me?
Hailey Bieber -
If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'
P. J. O'Rourke -
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
Abraham Lincoln -
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Lao Tzu -
In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business.
Carlos Alvarez -
I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.
B. B. King
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My memories are inside me – they're not things or a place – I can take them anywhere.
Olivia Newton-John -
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
Jackson Pollock -
Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
Candice Bergen -
Israel does not care about the international public opinion.
Bashar al-Assad -
I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.
Nargis Fakhri -
Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
Kate Williams
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Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.
Jill Lepore -
My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.
Jack Kerouac -
The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work.
Donald Pleasence -
By the bye, as I must leave off being young, I find many douceurs in being a sort of chaperon, for I am put on the sofa near the fire and can drink as much wine as I like.
Jane Austen -
When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying any weapons. I replied: Oh yes, my prayer books.
Mother Teresa -
Tradition is the crown of the tyrant.
Pierce Brown