Joan Didion Quotes
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
Yair Lapid -
Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
Harold Ramis -
There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
Orson Welles -
Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
Sam Graves -
Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.
Carla Gugino
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Part of any solution to get our economy going should include steps to free up our small businesses by peeling back unnecessarily burdensome regulations, ending the continual threats of tax hikes, and addressing the cloud of federal debt that hangs over our economy.
Sam Graves -
They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
Parker Posey -
I try to stay on a pretty normal schedule of nine-to-five.
Washed Out -
I fall asleep everywhere! Someone recently asked if they could publish a book of pictures of me sleeping because there are so many.
Cara Delevingne -
My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Carl Jung
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It was a hard time. It was something I would love to erase from my memory.
Rafael Palmeiro -
Behold the hippopotamus!We laugh at how he looks to us,And yet in moments dank and grim,I wonder how we look to him.
Ogden Nash -
The Pope talks so much shit. The Pope was castigating the media for making gays look normal. YEAH, you're a real GOOD judge of normal, with your gold dress and your matching gold hat, living it up in the Vatican with 500 men surrounded by the finest antiques in the world! Queen, please! You live like Versace did!
Margaret Cho -
A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.
Adam Smith -
Je suis esclave de mon baptême.
Arthur Rimbaud -
When you have a different name, people just kind of take the liberty to spell it how they want.
Cristela Alonzo
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Sure, I love people, and I want to communicate with people. I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.
Kenneth Bruce Gorelick -
Generally, older people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are running most countries and are CEOs of corporations. Which isn't to say there aren't entrepreneurs, but if the young were better in every respect, there'd be no reason for the old. Our life span reflects our particular life strategy.
Cynthia Kenyon -
I love the excesses of beauty, there is never enough sunlight in the world I will live in, never enough room for love.
Eric Gamalinda -
I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay.
Andy Garcia -
But boys and girls, pale from the imagined love Of solitary beds, knew what they were, That passion could bring character enough And pressed at midnighht in some public place Live lips upon a plummet-measured face.
William Butler Yeats -
We all survive more than we think we can.
Joan Didion