Jay Samit Quotes
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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Immanuel Kant -
The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
Natasha Trethewey -
Whether we fear pain and suffering or not, pain and suffering will come to everyone. Why not keep our minds focused on where we want to go?
Radhanath Swami -
I think my track record speaks for myself... I have been endorsed by the African Union, but I am a prosecutor for 121 states parties and this is what I intend to be until the end of my mandate.
Fatou Bensouda -
The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.
Ralph Peters -
For me, I always try to make it to the final.
Yohan Blake
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You can be very wild and still be very wise.
Yoko Ono -
Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.
Barry Mann -
It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
Wendell Berry -
There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!
Nat King Cole -
I do think children come in wired a certain way. Why else would I be filled with hope and optimism? You just could not keep me down for very long. You can call it grace or a gift from God, but I do think I came in with it.
Florence Henderson -
A novelist has more talent for written than oral assignments.
Patrick Modiano
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'I feel strong in challenges, believing that personal improvement and fulfillment come through the continual process of learning from both negative and positive experiences.'
T. B. Joshua -
He had been looking like a dead fish. He now looked like a deader fish, one of last year's, cast up on some lonely beach and left there at the mercy of the wind and tides.
P. G. Wodehouse -
'You drink wine, you have foreskins. These things have been observed.'
Anthony Burgess -
Gravity is one variable in a lot of scientific processes. If you can remove gravity or minimize its effect, then you can understand the other processes that are going on.
Laurel Clark -
Every breakup is preceded by a bad relationship. So breakups should be cause for celebration and triumph.
Lucy Dacus -
First of all, when I was making the decision, I never thought that Pittsburgh fans would want me back. Every time I played there, they were booing me every time I touched the puck. I didn't think it would be such a big deal that I didn't sign with Pittsburgh.
Jaromir Jagr
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I've always been kind of a loner. Continue to be.
Ben McKenzie -
I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos.
Quentin S. Crisp -
The Lord is a shoving leopard.
William Archibald Spooner -
I don't come to Toronto often, so when I'm there it's always special and rare which I think makes it very exciting for my fans.
G-Eazy -
I think the term "interbeing" has cropped up in a lot of places. It's in the atmosphere, because it's just so true, and the time for that truth to be revealed to mass society is here. It's like in those French bakeries where they don't need to add yeast to the dough, because the yeast is so ambient in the air that the dough gets quickened whether or not you add yeast to it. Many people, even without doing a whole lot of study and reading, are coming to the same kinds of conclusions and perceptions about the world as I am.
Charles Eisenstein -
All disruption starts with introspection.
Jay Samit