John Cheever Quotes
...your underwear is clean in case you should be hit by a taxicab and have to be undressed by strangers.
John Cheever
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I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.
Qandeel Baloch
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Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.
Narendra Modi
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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
Ovid
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You take so much on as a therapist: you just sit there and listen to people talk with you, and you're trying to help people, and it can be draining.
Samira Wiley
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Think of Bitcoin as a bank account in the cloud, and it's completely decentralized: not the Swiss government, not the American government. It's all the participants in the network enforcing.
Naval Ravikant
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Digital India is about empowering the citizen - it's mobile, it's cloud, it's storage - we are in all those areas.
Safra A. Catz
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Most of my characters are an amalgamation of people that I've met, my family, or myself. Being a writer, you can draw only from what you know. I am lucky to have really rich and interesting people in my family for, you know, interesting family nights and great characters.
Lake Bell
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Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.
Ted Cruz
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Women have been such an important part of my life. I try, every day, to be a better father to my daughters and a better husband.
Nate Parker
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Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all those years made the medicine go down. I had made the companies money. I didn't have to start, like a lot of women, from ground zero. My path was not the same as a woman starting out by herself.
Nancy Meyers
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Consumers of meat, eggs and dairy products might well ask what they are supporting. Do farmers care about anyone but themselves? Can't anyone see the cow for the cheese?
Ingrid Newkirk
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I'm not used to being asked what I want to talk about. That's why I'm an actress. Get told what to do, stand on the mark, say your words, wear this, look this way, look that way.
Kristin Scott Thomas
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Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever.
Yitzhak Shamir
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I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?
Jay London
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I mean, just like every other prominent songwriter or producer, you have the shot. You send in records and if they make it, they make it. If they get heard, they get heard. I'm not sure if you know how that circle of songwriting and producing works, but every time a big artist is working, everybody and their mother is in the studio writing records to try to get on it.
Bryce Wilson
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I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.
Mario Lemieux
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...your underwear is clean in case you should be hit by a taxicab and have to be undressed by strangers.
John Cheever