Jesmyn Ward Quotes
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I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.
Edmund White -
It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
Aaron Koblin -
People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
Ja Rule -
A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
Pat Conroy -
I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
Eddie Izzard -
My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
Imtiaz Ali
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
Waris Dirie -
It's not healthy to be jealous.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
America is addicted to wars of distraction.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. People's habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.
Harold E. Varmus -
Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.
Xavier Niel -
I'm like the wine. The older I get, the better I get.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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I wasn't unhappy, but I was a little like: 'Is this it? Really?' I was thirsty.
Adam Lambert -
I think when you're a TV presenter, you have to have a reason for doing it, and a lot of them have been around a long time and grafted for that. The reason why it works with me on 'The Xtra Factor' is because I was a contestant on it, and I have a relationship with the viewers at home.
Olly Murs -
I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. For example, it is essential to use a sharp knife: the sharper the knife, the more fluid and precise your work and the less likely you are to get hurt. Dull knives are a danger - they slip far more often.
Gail Simmons -
I see a New York where there is no barrier to the God-given potential of every New Yorker. I see a New York where everyone who wants a good job can find one. I see a New York where the people can believe in a grounded government again.
Carl Paladino -
Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another?
Patricia Polacco -
A lot of the early Washed Out material was done on a couple of synthesizers that did most of the work, but that's the great thing about synths - you can recreate sounds or make an entire record with just one piece of gear.
Washed Out
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It would be childish to think that the Stalin bureaucracy can be removed by means of a Party or Soviet Congress. Normal, constitutional means are no longer available for the removal of the ruling clique ... They can be compelled to hand over power to the Proletarian vanguard only by FORCE.
Leon Trotsky -
I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.
Adrian Belew -
You are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.
Oprah Winfrey -
Sometimes when a record's done, I'm satisfied and I won't listen back to it for a while 'cause I'm usually pretty tired of the songs. Then I've got to learn them again to play them live, and sometimes it takes a while to realise it's a really good record.
Joe Perry Aerosmith -
French women will always look up at a man, even if he is four inches shorter than she is.
Alan Furst -
I live in the South; there are Confederate flags everywhere.
Jesmyn Ward