Joan Didion Quotes
To believe in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.
Joan Didion
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
Barbara Bush
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I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
Viggo Mortensen
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
Pardis Sabeti
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Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.
Randeep Hooda
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
Taylor Lautner
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
Finn Jones
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
Larry Mullen, Jr.
U2
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You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
Jack Carroll
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
Lana Turner
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
Salma Hayek
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There are many ways to be hungry. One can hunger for love, or fame or social justice, but hunger for food seems to curb all other cravings.
Hamza Yusuf
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Critics... They're like traffic cops. They say what they have to say, then leave, and another guy moves in ,and he has his say - and it's often just the opposite. The result is either critical acclaim or critical murder, and neither has any bearing on my music or direction.
Jeff Buckley
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I love cooking Japanese food at home. It's so easy to make an easy fry, a saute, or a quick braise and serve it over a bowl of rice with pickles and a side salad.
Andrew Zimmern
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Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
Charles Lyell
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
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To believe in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.
Joan Didion
