Jean Hanff Korelitz Quotes
Most of all, I am struck by an irony central to the lot of a purebred dog: As it attains the hallmarks of its breed, it seems to simultaneously relinquish its basic dogginess, until it is less a dog than a Pomeranian, Collie or Bloodhound.Jean Hanff Korelitz
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I can't change my bra size. They're natural! I can work out and I can stay healthy and motivated, but I can't change some things. I really just live my life. I love my body. It's what God gave me! I feel confident with myself, and if that inspires other women to feel confident with their bodies, great.
Kate Upton -
My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
Abraham A. Ribicoff -
I just sing what I feel in my heart. I ain't trying to prove nothing, and I don't think I ever did.
Aaron Neville -
You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
Nate Berkus -
The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.
Malala Yousafzai
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There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.
T'Keyah Crystal Keymah -
Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.
Kamala Harris -
I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.
R. A. Salvatore -
Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
Harold Hamm -
Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
Xavier Rudd -
Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.
Yo-Yo Ma
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
Kate Beckinsale -
I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.
Carl Yastrzemski -
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
Samuel Beckett -
I cannot live anywhere else except India.
Irrfan Khan -
The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.
Danger Mouse -
When we came out from the Elysee palace, there was a gigantic limousine waiting for us and four police on motorcycles. It is probably one of the few times I have experienced my fame. I thought it was so fantastic that I laughed to the point of shouting.
Ingmar Bergman
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Playful stimulation probably hits all kinds of synaptic possibilities. It is all make-believe and all over the map. The potentiality of the synapses and the potentiality of playfulness are a beautiful marriage.
Brian Sutton-Smith -
I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.
John Waters -
A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however eloquently he may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were honest but poor.
Bertrand Russell -
The more boys I meet, the more I love my dog.
Carrie Underwood -
Most of all, I am struck by an irony central to the lot of a purebred dog: As it attains the hallmarks of its breed, it seems to simultaneously relinquish its basic dogginess, until it is less a dog than a Pomeranian, Collie or Bloodhound.
Jean Hanff Korelitz