John Shirley Quotes
People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive.
John Shirley
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
G. Gordon Liddy
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
J. K. Simmons
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I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
Karl Rove
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
Abbas Kiarostami
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
Garrison Keillor
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
Randy Pausch
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If you're smart enough to go to college, you should be smart and creative enough to pay for it.
Jesse Ventura
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
Karen Hesse
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The United Nations has no business in our elections.
David Vitter
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I started 'The Daily Show' when I was 22. I was going to class at Long Beach.
Jessica Williams
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It's weird because I see black gay characters on television all the time, but do I relate to them? Not always, because they're set pieces.
Lena Waithe
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People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive.
John Shirley