Brandi Carlile Quotes
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
Damon Galgut -
Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
Kate McKinnon -
I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.
Garth Brooks -
Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
Mamata Banerjee -
You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.
Carl Icahn -
Pakistan has dozens of laboratories and production and storage sites scattered across the country. After developing warheads with highly enriched uranium, it has more recently tried to do the same with more-powerful and compact plutonium.
Barton Gellman
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
Walter Ulbricht -
I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.
Zoe Kazan -
I never forbid myself anything.
Ieva Laguna -
Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.
Vikram Seth -
I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
E. O. Wilson -
When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.
Bart Stupak
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The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.
Ted Morgan -
Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.
Zadie Smith -
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
Quentin Crisp -
In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.
Orson Scott Card -
A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.
W. H. Auden -
This in turn suggests an answer to our question: what happened between the birth of De Sade and the birth of Krafft-Ebbing? The rise of the novel taught Europe to use its imagination. And when imagination was applied to sex, the result was the rise of pornography - and of 'sexual perversion.'
Colin Wilson
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Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
Marcus Valerius Martial -
Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
Jack Kerouac -
No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.
Felix Adler -
I once believed in Jenner; I once believed in Pasteur. I believed in vaccination. I believed in vivisection. But I changed my views as the result of hard thinking.
Walter Hadwen -
I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner -
I love fishing, any kind of fishing.
Brandi Carlile