Joel Parkinson Quotes
It definitely takes a fair bit of experience to know what's the right kind of wave and which is the wrong wave.
Joel Parkinson
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
Fabrizio Moreira
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I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
Zygmunt Bauman
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I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.
Lady Gaga
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For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
Malcolm Gladwell
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
Federico Fellini
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
Randal Kleiser
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I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
Tatyana Tolstaya
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
Rachel Kushner
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
Ovid
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
Laura Ricketts
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
