John Ray Quotes
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg
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For those of us imprisoned in Poland, the Prague Spring was a harbinger of hope.
Adam Michnik
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When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.
Rand Paul
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Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the best, the city on the hill. In fact the great American task is self-scrutiny.
Naomi Wolf
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I get scripts and think, 'There's not enough here to get my teeth stuck into.' That's a result of studying English, where you luxuriate in these big, lush novels.
Ophelia Lovibond
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The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.
Octavio Paz
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I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don't have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don't, then they're a cartoon character.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded.
Rachel Cusk
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I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.
Yoko Ono
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The biggest advice I can give loved ones who are supporting someone navigating a newly diagnosed mental illness is patience, patience, and patience.
Madchen Amick
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I eat less, stretch, and work out.
Ted Danson
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I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
Aamir Khan
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Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.
Gautama Buddha
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I'd rather live in Nebraska than Washington.
Dave Heineman
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Before Churchill had done anything else, he was a writer. He believed to the core that words matter. They count. They can change the world.
Anthony McCarten
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Increase your consumption of healthful fats like extra virgin olive oil, avocado, grass-fed beef, wild fish, coconut oil, nuts and seeds. At the same time, keep in mind that modified fats like hydrogenated or trans fats are the worst choices for brain health.
David Perlmutter
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I have what I call A-list moments, but believe me, I'm still on the D-list.
Kathy Griffin
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