John Metcalf (John Metcalf) Quotes
I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular "ism," but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence.
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For me, I don't participate in the filming when I represent a reality show star in a case, because that would mean waiving my right to attorney – client privilege, and that would hamper my ability to mount an effective case.
Laura Wasser
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Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.
Bai Ling
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I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
Garry Kasparov -
When I have a bad day, I dream about opening up a gelato stand on the streets of Sydney, Australia. Doesn't everyone have a random escape fantasy?
Nancy Lublin
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Edmund Burke
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
Jackson Pollock
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Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.
Dan Quisenberry
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I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.
P. L. Travers
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Success will be when I can have a real swimming pool instead of the fifty-dollar one I buy at Kmart every year. But I don't want to get robbed of any authenticity to try and make money.
Nathaniel Rateliff
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There are so many movies people make just to make money.
Randy Wayne
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Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.
Lao Tzu
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In high school and college all my friends and my brother wrestled.
Verne Troyer
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I don't believe in killing people. I believe in locking you up for the rest of your life.
Yahya Jammeh
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People, including me, can get so detached from everything, but when you can focus on a defined place, a home, it gets you back in touch.
Tawni O'Dell
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Regarding Wikileaks, I have profound ambivalent feelings about it. I am a firm believer in a strong intelligence service. There's a need for classified information.
Valerie Plame
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Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.
Barack Obama
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
Oscar Wilde
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We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.
bell hooks
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All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
Sallust
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I loved the extended version of 'Aliens' because it shows just a little bit more that you don't see and what they always show on television.
Mekhi Phifer
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What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.
Salma Hayek
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I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular "ism," but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence.
John Metcalf