Jane Smiley Quotes
In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.
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We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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A cat is never vulgar.
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
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All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
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Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.
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One of the things that may appeal to teenagers is that vampires never change - they're frozen in that age.
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Young people in Israel are encouraged to design, produce and sell their products from high school. Technical universities also matter. Teach and introduce entrepreneurship courses in technical universities.
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I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.
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Pollution is a problem, and there's the whole problem of the spoiling of the commons, but we've addressed the pollution problem on a variety of different levels in a variety of ways, and it's worked pretty well.
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In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.
