Bruce Chatwin Quotes
To lose a passport was the least of one's worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe.Bruce Chatwin
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I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up.
Sally Mann -
My attitude is govern as if you've run your last race. That's not to say I've run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.
Rahm Emanuel -
If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax. We would abolish the IRS, and we could replace all of it with one federal consumption tax.
Gary Johnson -
It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
India has given me everything. It has made me Vijay Mallya.
Vijay Mallya -
When it comes to investing, there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all portfolio.
Barry Ritholtz
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When I was a kid, I used to try and hit every ball out of the ground. After playing one-day cricket and Test cricket, I never thought I'd get a chance to play like that again, ever. Twenty20 has given me the opportunity of playing like a kid again. I can just feel free and go out there and hit.
Yuvraj Singh -
Well, I met Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan in the space of 15 minutes. Frank Sinatra kissed me on the lips. He kissed me on the lips. And then he gave me a filterless cigarette. And then I met Bob Dylan. I came off all lightheaded and had to go sit on his dressing-room steps.
Kate Moss -
Technology is an enabler; you have to be at the cutting edge of technology - there is no choice.
Uday Kotak -
There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.
Quentin Crisp -
The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.
Immanuel Kant -
There is no change without risk, and no progress without sacrifice, and no freedom without solidarity.
Barack Obama
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Look what I found; a litter version of the Internet! This used to be something that could convert carbon dioxide to oxygen using only sunlight, water, and a few nutrients. But now it's way cooler; it has two functions. You can either put little words on it, or crumple it up into a tiny ball and throw it! 27.
Ze Frank -
'Brotherhood: Homage to Claudius Ptolemy'
Octavio Paz -
Child rearing is an art, and what makes art art is that it is doing several things at once.
Adam Gopnik -
The police officer who puts their life on the line with no superpowers, no X-Ray vision, no super-strength, no ability to fly, and above all no invulnerability to bullets, reveals far greater virtue than Superman - who is only a mere superhero.
Eliezer Yudkowsky -
The duty of the survivor is to bear testimony to what happened . . . You have to warn people that these things can happen, that evil can be unleashed. Race hatred, violence, idolatries-they still flourish.
Elie Wiesel -
I'm a hundred percent a rock n' roll guy.
Labrinth LSD
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The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.
Saib Tabrizi -
I realized that that Golden Rule does not exist online. You are not held to that same standard as when there is a teacher in the room or someone monitoring behavior.
Whitney Wolfe Herd -
We need steady hands, not a president who says he's neutral on Monday, pro-Israel on Tuesday, and who knows what on Wednesday, because everything's negotiable.
Hillary Clinton -
I never liked the term 'fans.'
Morten Harket A-ha -
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
Henry David Thoreau -
To lose a passport was the least of one's worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe.
Bruce Chatwin