Jeanette Winterson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
S. Jay Olshansky -
When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
Carla Bley -
I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
Oksana Baiul -
One of my closest friends was a half-black, half-Jewish girl. Another good friend had a shaved head... but I was also friends with jocks. I was a 'floater,' I guess you could say.
Imran Amed -
Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
Walter Lippmann -
Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
Parker Stevenson
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
Zubin Mehta -
There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?
Idris Elba -
The first thing many tourists see in Hawaii is concrete - a long dreary stretch of it through landscapes dominated by sad, cheap apartment buildings and almost entirely denuded of plant life.
Hanya Yanagihara -
I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
Larry David -
When you face a 'performance' that might provoke the 'I'm scared' response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It's more fun than 'Dancing with the Stars!'
Wayne Dyer -
Now we have new tools for exploring the deep and have to pull together a deep exploration program that takes advantage of them.
Edith Widder
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There is no link between the terror attacks of Daesh and the dress of a woman on the beach.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
It's unfair to think that we can do what we do with the intensity that we do it and expect injuries to not happen.
Daniel Cormier -
If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.
Fat Joe -
I come from a council estate in Tower Hamlets, and by no means am I the only person who has done well - one of my friends is head of year in a great school in Twickenham. Another is a writer; another is an artist, a musician.
Eddie Marsan -
A dialogue of respect is the rock-bed of all societies. Attacking and excluding others, insulting other peoples and their faith and convictions - this is no way forward. The future lies in unity and respect, not division and stereotypes.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
I know LSD; I don't need to take it anymore. Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley.
Albert Hofmann
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In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s, it took people of all color to demand equal rights.
Pauley Perrette -
Our pioneers lived a slightly, not a slightly, but a great deal different life to what they now have, but we are, or our society is, what our pioneers made us, of course, and we've tried to bring to the remembrance of the future generations the kind of life and the kind of people that made Australia.
R. M. Williams -
I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.
Dan Savage -
I wanted to say thanks... and share my gratitude for everything I've been blessed with. Family, friends, and continued support from everyone.
Travis Barker Blink-182 -
Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
Jeanette Winterson