Joanna Russ Quotes
'And you think they’ll let you,' said Machine. It was a flat, sad statement.'No,' she said, 'but nobody ever let me do anything in my life before and I never let that stop me.'Joanna Russ
Quotes to Explore
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
Beck -
Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
Barbara Johnson -
I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
Aaron Neville -
Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.
Carine Roitfeld -
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
T. S. Eliot -
When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
Barton Gellman -
I received free health care.
Joanne Rowling -
I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
Halsey -
I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing.
Tamsin Greig -
In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
Taylor Caldwell -
I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow. I'm optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon; we can balance the federal budget.
Gary Johnson
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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
Kate Walsh -
I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
Walter Kirn -
I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
Natalia Kills -
When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
Orlando Bloom -
Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
L. E. Modesitt
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I once had to say this on a show many years ago, and I truly believe it: Loneliness is a choice. I like to be alone; I’m more comfortable alone. But I do recognize that I take it too far sometimes and so I try to force myself to keep up with being sociable. I just am a bit of a lone ranger; I always have been. But I don’t believe that necessarily has to translate to being lonely. You can be lonely in a crowd of a thousand people. I can be in a hotel room on my own and not feel lonely. It all comes down to how comfortable you are with who you are in the silence.
Gillian Anderson -
I never really wanted to be an artist. I just really wanted to write songs. But, of course, I can't get placement unless I demo the songs.
Bryson Tiller -
Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.
Najib Razak -
Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.
Karen Finerman -
When I get up in the morning, I look forward to the games and I'm just buzzing. At the end of the day, if you are nervous or scared before games, you are not going to perform. I just go out there and think, 'If I get a chance, I'm going to score' and that's it.
Jermain Defoe -
'And you think they’ll let you,' said Machine. It was a flat, sad statement.'No,' she said, 'but nobody ever let me do anything in my life before and I never let that stop me.'
Joanna Russ