Jessamyn West Quotes
Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.Jessamyn West
Quotes to Explore
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
Wallace Stevens -
Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.
Samuel E. Morison -
My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
Katee Sackhoff -
As a filmmaker whose first film was made with the DIY tools of digital cinema, I love how the democratization of the filmmaking process and platforms like YouTube enables people to tell stories that in previous generations simply could not be told.
Barry Jenkins -
I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.
Oksana Baiul -
I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
Nate Silver
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
Jackee Harry -
In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
Pankaj Mishra -
It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
Tallulah Bankhead -
Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.
T. J. Miller -
I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
Becky Lynch
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
Barry Diller -
The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.
Malcolm X -
I'm a loner.
Larry Bird -
Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.
Caio Fonseca -
When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.
J. C. Watts -
The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.
Barry Eichengreen
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Move to California. Malibu is paradise.
David Geffen -
I don't go and study other folks. I come from where I came from, as a kid, in the little black church I grew up in. And some of the things they did I rejected, because I could see that it was a manipulation and an exaggeration. My struggle is never to fool folks; to keep it authentic - who we are and who we are becoming - rather than to mimic or to translate what others do into my own terms.
Cecil Williams -
All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged. What is meant by God-realization is to actually experience this important thing - that the soul is eternal.
Meher Baba -
How is it macho that I like to hunt and fish? I've been doing it since I was four.
Jim Harrison -
Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.
Jessamyn West