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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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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The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.
Oliver Tambo
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Once again, we've seen an outrageous attempt to terrorize innocent civilians. This is an attack not just on Paris, it's an attack not just on the people of France, but this is an attack on all of humanity and the universal values that we share.
Barack Obama
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I had a buddy of mine call up the other day, all upset 'cause he slept with his third cousin. And I'm like, 'Man, if it upsets you that much, quit countin' them!'
Larry the Cable Guy
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Every socialistic type of government… produces bad art, produces social inertia, produces really unhappy people, and it's more repressive than any other kind of government.
Frank Zappa
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Perhaps the music that some call 'background' music can tranquilize by turning under-thoughts from bad to neutral, leaving the surface thoughts free of affect by diverting the unconscious.
Marvin Minsky
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Very simply, the culture of another people does not have to be accepted when it is subhuman!
Armstrong Williams
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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
