Jonathan Carroll Quotes
Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination.Jonathan Carroll
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
Walter Benjamin -
I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
Quentin Crisp -
I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
Kate Beckinsale -
My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
Haley Joel Osment -
I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
Kapil Dev
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
Karen Handel -
The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
Fabrizio Moreira -
There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
Pat Conroy -
A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
Fisher Ames -
I just have an inability to lie.
Paloma Faith -
A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
Walter Lang
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
Famke Janssen -
It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
Mallory Ortberg -
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Immanuel Kant -
I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue.
Karen DeCrow -
I read, I gossip, I do crosswords. I think chatting with friends is relaxing. I've picked them up all through my life - if you live long enough, you end up with quite a large circle.
Harriet Walter -
Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
Harlan Stone
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It is because we are predominantly purposeful beings that we are perpetually correcting our immediate sensations. But men are free not to be utilitarianly purposeful. They can sometime be artists, for example. In which case they may like to accept the immediate sensation uncorrected, because it happens to be beautiful.
Aldous Huxley -
When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'
Salma Hayek -
Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!
Friedrich Nietzsche -
As anyone who lived through the 1990s knows, nothing shrinks our deficits faster than a growing economy.
Denis McDonough -
Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.
Andrew Vachss -
Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination.
Jonathan Carroll