John Ashbery Quotes
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
Lance Burton -
The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
Barbara Amiel -
I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
Larry Wilmore -
If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
Jack Whitehall -
I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.
Ted Nugent -
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
Sam Riley -
Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
Edith Head -
I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
Hannah Simone -
Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.
Karel Capek -
By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
Orison Swett Marden -
He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
Abu Bakr
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
Edgar Ramirez -
Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.
Uri Geller -
I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
Ted Lange -
Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
Saint Ignatius -
I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.
Warren Giles -
I've gotten to learn what's important in life and what's not important, and what to spend energy on and what not to. I don't have a family like some of my teammates, but I have a lot of things pulling at me that I have to put my energy into.
Aaron Rodgers
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I am a little old fashioned, and I love to have my scripts printed out. There is something magical about feeling the paper, making notes and page marks.
Olga Fonda -
My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
Sally Kirkland -
As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.
J. J. Abrams -
You can throw a novel into focus with one overheard line.
Joan Didion -
By rule, the decision to reverse a call by use of instant replay is at the sole discretion of the crew chief.
Joe Torre -
These two guys in the front yard-Are they here to help?
John Ashbery