James Thurber Quotes
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
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Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.
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The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
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I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.
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I just really like Houston despite its craziness. There is a sense of energy and a kind of excitement, 'We're going places and God knows what'll happen next.' It's very interesting. It's very exciting.
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I absolutely consider fashion a form of art. Of course, there is some fashion that is not art at all - it's utilitarian, made for the purpose of covering up. And there are a lot of people out there who put a lot of effort into looking awful. But there are also people putting the same amount of energy into making bad art.
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I don't have to jump up and smile just because TV wants me to.
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Prayers truly from the heart open all doors in Heaven.
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My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.
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I don't find R.E.M. to be nihilistic. There is a constant undertone of joyous optimism. I'm not going to kill myself to Patti Smith or R.E.M.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases.
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I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that.
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All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.
