Gene Wolfe Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
Tamae Watanabe -
You have to relish the challenge of television.
Laura Linney -
The European Union will continue to fully support multilateral global governance based on international law, human rights, and strong international institutions.
Federica Mogherini -
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
Patrick Wang -
I still enjoy doing the things I've always done, like going to a monthly dance party at a club downtown.
Tamara Tunie -
Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
Abigail Washburn
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
Malcolm Lowry -
I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
Eckhard Pfeiffer -
There was a time where I thought I could only date vegans. I was wrong because I was missing the fact that somebody should be right for me first, instead of just having similar values.
Maggie Q -
People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
Dan Stevens -
I know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew Allen Collins, the skinny girl-beautiful guitarist. I put Allen Collins in every travel piece I do. Travel writing is harrowing, going to Bermuda with a banjo on my knee.
Padgett Powell -
The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.
Zhang Ziyi
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So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.
Vic Morrow -
A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
Dalai Lama -
Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons.
Zahi Hawass -
Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.
Orrin Hatch -
I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
T. Boone Pickens -
Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.
Adam Mansbach
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I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
Desmond Tutu -
I want to come back in 2017 if things work well.
Marit Bjorgen -
It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
V. S. Naipaul -
If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.
Philip Johnson -
There is more to be learned from any good teacher than the subject taught.
Gene Wolfe