John Irving Quotes
A reader told me recently, in London, said that 'well, I read that you write the last sentence first, so I always read your last sentence first.' And I said, 'oh, no, you're not supposed to do that.'John Irving
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In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.
Ralph Steadman -
If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
Jack Welch -
Village cricket spread fast through the land.
G. M. Trevelyan -
I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
Webb Simpson -
I got spoiled on 'Breaking Bad.' Playing the same guy for four or five seasons, you get to really explore who the character is.
Aaron Paul
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
Walter Benjamin -
Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.
Ford Frick -
I don't think there should be more gun control. I think there should be more education.
Sam Brownback -
I saw Bitcoin as an actual market opportunity: as a trillion-dollar marketplace with long-term potential.
Adam Draper -
Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.
Hans Bender -
My mother never really thought I could become anything.
Barbra Streisand
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I've been very focused on my career outside of tennis.
Venus Williams -
In the Holy Book of Islam, Allah says:
Abdus Salam -
Pity they didn’t devote a little more ingenuity to staying alive rather than conducting mass slaughter as efficiently as possible.
Iain Banks -
I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.
Ulysses S. Grant -
Folks should do their own fuckin', then they wouldn't want to listen to a lot of clatfart about another man's.
D. H. Lawrence -
I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.
Benazir Bhutto
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For years I've wanted to find some guys that I could work with, because I realized a long time ago that I can do a lot of things other than Aerosmith.
Joe Perry Aerosmith -
You don't need papers to vote...
Francine Busby -
Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?
Mike Medavoy -
We don't have a business model for health care in this country, We just have a business model for care. The way doctors and hospitals get paid is something bad has got to happen. It's a pure reactive model.
Neal Patterson -
She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of life — one scratched on the wall.
Virginia Woolf -
A reader told me recently, in London, said that 'well, I read that you write the last sentence first, so I always read your last sentence first.' And I said, 'oh, no, you're not supposed to do that.'
John Irving