John D'Agata Quotes
I never really understood the idea that nonfiction ought to be this dispensary of data that we have at the moment.
John D'Agata
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I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.
Flea
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work, we can make a big difference in defending those values we share as Americans.
Laura Moser
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I'm a Reuben kinda girl, but I'll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.
Gail Carriger
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We anticipate countries increasing their spending on infrastructure like railways, airports, power plants and ports. Our heavy forging plant has the capacity to cater to each of these segments.
Baba Kalyani
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I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.
J. G. Ballard
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Somewhere, in some city in America, someone is wearing my clothes, and I'm happy with that.
Raf Simons
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I value my friends.
David Hockney
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I would have preferred to keep both brands. But in the way (that) it developed, I am very satisfied.
Ferdinand Piech
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I'm not going to tell people how to write, but we do have a skill set, and the more we put ourselves out into the world as poets, as a sort of poet of the tribe, as representatives of metaphor, and try to claim space for metaphor in the inner life, that's going to be important and be helpful to poetry and bring a tension for poets writing about whatever they choose.
David Biespiel
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Every vice president since Mondale has lived up on this hill, on the twelve-acre campus of the Naval Observatory in Northwest Washington. It's a pretty house with a wraparound porch and a white turret.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
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I think the biggest survival instinct that Midwesterners possess is self deprecation, it's almost a Buddha-like sense of humor in anything that is difficult to get through. They would prefer to laugh at difficulties, show their mettle through that, and toughen up and have a beer afterward. That's definitely the characteristic I've carried through me, and hope to never lose.
Amy Pietz
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I never really understood the idea that nonfiction ought to be this dispensary of data that we have at the moment.
John D'Agata
