Gene Cernan Quotes
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I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.
Jackson Browne -
If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.
Vikram Seth -
Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party.
Ted Allen -
The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
Sally Mann -
You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
Sai Baba
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I'm rap's vigilante. I'm out for justice.
Action Bronson -
There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.
Kate Winslet -
The Heartland Institute, which people mostly only know in terms of the fact that it hosts these annual conferences of climate change skeptics or deniers, it's important to know that the Heartland Institute is first and foremost a free market think tank. It's not a scientific organization.
Naomi Klein -
I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun.
Patrick Carney The Black Keys -
I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.
Dana Stabenow -
I've surfed the Web and the whole dating connection. I find that pretty fascinating, but no real leads.
Taylor Hicks
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Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should have the same rights. The American spirit of fair play had been invoked.
Edmund White -
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
Carl Sandburg -
They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again.
Walter Crane -
That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.
Barack Obama -
Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferunt.
Ovid -
Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?
Oscar Levant
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I'm never interested in the painting being a mirror to culture. I think that's really boring. What I'm interested in is painting as an affective space. The place where the hierarchies of the world can be rearranged within the space of a painting. And they can be articulated in different ways.
Dana Schutz -
This is a very unforgiving country when you show this country its warts, when you hold the mirror up. If you happen not to share their beliefs, they'll kill you.
H. Rap Brown -
When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires.
Alan Ball -
Be You, Live Civil was a tour that I started, and it's just always something that I've been to myself. 'Be you, live civil' is like 'live my life.' That was my short version of saying to live my life.
Karen Civil -
I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it.
David Cone -
If you begin to think you're something you're not, you're looking in the wrong mirror.
Gene Cernan