Gene Wolfe Quotes
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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
Abraham Lincoln -
'Wet Hot American Summer' was sort of lowbrow genius, you know? But smart in its cultish silliness. It wasn't considered something of great cultural caliber. But like many cult pieces, it sort of became something culturally relevant, which I think is what's so wonderful about it.
Lake Bell -
Working is hard and distracts from having fun.
Orson Scott Card -
I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
Tariq Ramadan -
I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.
Dan Fogelberg
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I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.
A. S. Byatt -
ISIS itself, it draws its central belief system from the Koran and from the writings of the Prophet Muhammad. That is undeniable. And it's a medieval interpretation of it. It is a literal interpretation of it.
Jack Keane -
In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
Larry Hogan -
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
Oscar Wilde -
America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.
Jack Kornfield
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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
Karl Jaspers -
Usually, someone who's in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can't walk out if I don't like it.
Uta Hagen -
The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the other people.
Patrick Kane -
Oh God, to think that you only fall in love once in your entire life is such a depressing thought.
Olivia Wilde -
I want people to make sense of what I'm talking about.
Washed Out -
Shock 'n' Awe. We bring the BoomWow.13
Ze Frank
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I think it's important for tourists to know the facts of what's happening in the Maldives. I don't think people realize that there's a flogging taking place a kilometer away when they're sunbathing in their resort.
Amal Clooney -
I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
Ted Sarandos -
Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.
Patrick Lencioni -
The chief job of foreign policy today is helping to figure out the rules for the global economy and defending each nation's interests within it.
Chrystia Freeland -
Somebody said that it couldn't be done,But he with a chuckle replied 'maybe it couldn't,' but he would be one wouldn't say so till he'd tried. he buckled right in with the trace of a grin his face. If he worried he hid it.He started to sing as he tackled the thingThat couldn't be done, and he did it.
Edgar Guest -
It is well not to spend one's symbols improvidently.
Gene Wolfe