Maxine Hong Kingston Quotes
There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.Maxine Hong Kingston
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
Nadia Comaneci -
I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.
Idris Elba -
If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
Pat Paulsen -
First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
Garry Shandling -
I've never had a problem finding a team, a league, or a pickup game. Actually, I'm not sure I want soccer to get bigger. We have so many teams in San Francisco that there aren't enough fields.
Rabih Alameddine -
I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
Fat Joe
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You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.
Caitlin Fitzgerald -
Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
Victoria Justice -
I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers.
Ted Danson -
I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
Barbra Streisand -
I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
Fiona Apple -
I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
Caitriona Balfe
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I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
Karl Lagerfeld -
When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
Caitriona Balfe -
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
Nancy Pearcey -
I admire people who destroy themselves.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Snake has been everything to me. Look at where I was when I started with the company in 1988 and where I'm at now. I mean, he's shown me just about everything on and off the race track.
Larry Dixon -
But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
Obie Trice
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Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.
Natalie Goldberg -
Wilbur burst into tears. "I dont want to die," he moaned. "I want to stay alive, right here in my comfortable manure pile with all my friends. I want to breathe the beautiful air and lie in the beautiful sun."
E. B. White -
This life will never be without storms. Stop fearing the storm. Build your inner shelter.
Yasmin Mogahed -
I'm the most ambitious person you ever met.
Vin Diesel -
There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.
Maxine Hong Kingston