John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Quotes
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Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe. It hardly matters, though. The termite that asks itself why it keeps chewing risks becoming sluggish and inefficient, as does the writer who grows self-conscious in the middle of chapter five.
Walter Kirn
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I am not as simple as I look.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
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In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective.
Kacey Musgraves
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I guess my name was gonna be Michael Vernon Wells, and I came out, and my dad saw my nose. He always says that my nose right now is the same size as it was when I was born. So he had to name me Vernon. He's got a big schnozz on him, too.
Vernon Wells
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We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process.
Patrick McHenry
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You spend five months filming in outer space and saving the world, and suddenly that kind of family unit and story disappears, and you come crashing back down to Earth, and you have to do your own washing... and most actors are insecure that the last job they did will be their last job ever.
Sam Worthington
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Until writing was invented, we lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, the dark of the mind, the world of emotion, primordial intuition, terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog. (p. 13)
Marshall McLuhan
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I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.
Olivier Theyskens
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Resolve was never stronger than in the morning, after the night, when it was never weaker
Mike Leigh
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I've found that people who design computers don't know a lot about displays.
Mary Lou Jepsen
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If you look into the mirror, you see that [every part of you] belongs there and you belong there, as you are. You begin to realize that you have a perfect right to be in this universe, to be this way, and you see that there is a basic hospitality that this world provides to you. You have looked and you have seen, and you don't have to apologize for being born on this earth.
Chogyam Trungpa
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
