Francoise Sagan Quotes
It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality.Francoise Sagan
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
E. Stanley Jones -
I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
Nas -
If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
Ed Harris -
I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.
Jack Antonoff Fun.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
Owen Wilson -
I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
J. Cole -
Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
Adam McKay -
I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
Haley Barbour -
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Walt Whitman -
I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
J. A. Konrath
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
Daniel Barenboim -
It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
Ira Glass -
This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
Ian Hislop -
I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.
Dallas Roberts -
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The joke is mightier than the sword.
Bassem Youssef
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To the credit of the Republican Party and the conservative movement, people have been expelled or marginalized. Pat Buchanan in the '90s. Ron Paul, Rand Paul in the first decade of this century. Bill Buckley famously expelled the Birchers in 1964. It's been a movement that's tried to maintain its boundaries.
Bill Kristol -
I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
Natasha Trethewey -
I was elected because I believed in what we call "grassroots politics," politics from the bottom up, not the top down.
Barack Obama -
I'd had to grow up pretty quickly, and going back to drama school gave me a chance to be with people my own age and do normal things, like going to a pub on a Friday night and just hanging out.
Jessie Buckley -
Heroes aren't always people who save others in the normal sense. Sometimes they're people who keep trying even when things seem impossible.
Jeff Vandermeer -
It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality.
Francoise Sagan