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.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
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• But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.

  

  Patrick Macnee
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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.

  

  Barbra Streisand
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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.

  

  Camille Paglia
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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.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Father
  • Boat
  • Copy

• There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Art
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• Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • Business
  • Break
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• I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Weird
  • Sad
  • Look

• Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Positive
  • Research
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• A cat is never vulgar.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Never
  • Cat
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• The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Politics
  • Democrats
  • Corrupt

• 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.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
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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.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Picture
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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.

  

  Maimonides
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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.

  

  Beck
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• Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.

  

  Adam Hamilton
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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.

  

  Olivia Culpo
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• Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
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  • Practice

• I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Great
  • Rock
  • Promise

• It's wonderful to be back. Back among the mountains that remind us of our vulnerability, our ultimate lack of control over the world we live in. Mountains that demand humility, and yield so much peace in return.

  

  Alex Lowe
  • World
  • Live
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• Over most of history, threats have come from nature - disease, earthquakes, floods, and so forth. But the worst now come from us. We've entered a geological era called the anthropocene. This started, perhaps, with the invention of thermonuclear weapons.

  

  Martin Rees
  • History
  • Nature

• I'm not a comedian. I don't do stand-up. I don't tell jokes. I'm a comedic actor, and approach my work that way. The comedy comes through the character.

  

  Eugene Levy
  • Character
  • Jokes
  • Comedian

• I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Good
  • Audience
  • Hard

• In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • High
  • Pretty