Bruce Jackson Quotes
The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.Bruce Jackson
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
Yo-Yo Ma -
Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
Tallulah Bankhead -
Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
Octavio Paz -
All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
Fat Joe -
There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
Orson Welles -
There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
Patrick Duffy
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No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
Pat Gillick -
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Carl Sandburg -
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 was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
Rachel Weisz -
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
Edmund Burke -
I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me.
Lance Bass NSYNC
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
Felicia Hemans -
There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
Harold H. Greene -
No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
Sallust -
What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you open up a book that has a body that's dead, that matters. It matters more than a certain level of suburban angst; it really does.
S. J. Rozan -
Showbiz can be cruel.
Nadia Bjorlin -
Money and good life had never been my goal.
Kailash Kher
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When I travel, I have to have blotting sheets. It's so much better to remove the oil than to cover it up because then your skin just looks cakey.
Bethany Mota -
Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?
Clifford Stoll -
The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.
Aristotle -
If you can learn to love the imperfect people in your family then it's possible that someone can learn to love a imperfect you.
T. D. Jakes -
The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.
Bruce Jackson