Meghan Daum Quotes
The point of essays is the point of writing anything. It's not to tell people what they already think or to give them more of what they already believe; it's to challenge people, and it's to suggest alternate ways of thinking about things.Meghan Daum
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
Dabney Coleman -
Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
Youssef Ziedan -
For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
Taylor Swift -
I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
Adam Lambert -
I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
Zach Braff -
I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.
Isaac Hayes
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Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
Ian Mckellen -
I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
Kate Mulgrew -
I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
Ted Cruz -
I must stick with Chinese language films.
Zhang Yimou -
I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
Carles Puigdemont -
The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
J. D. Hayworth
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I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
I. M. Pei -
Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
Imelda Marcos -
If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.
Becky Lynch -
What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
Harrison Ford -
I hate to travel with stuff.
Manolo Blahnik -
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx -
I think if more people actually pursued what they loved, we'd have a lot more innovation and creativity.
Jennifer Hyman -
The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.
Aharon Appelfeld -
People may come and go,lives may change in a instant,but love and friendship will last forever.
Elizabeth Sims -
The process of waiting and enduring qualifies you for the next step—the step into your destiny.
Bishop Noel Jones -
The point of essays is the point of writing anything. It's not to tell people what they already think or to give them more of what they already believe; it's to challenge people, and it's to suggest alternate ways of thinking about things.
Meghan Daum