Jonathan Franzen Quotes
When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way.Jonathan Franzen
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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
Kate Millett -
Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
Karin Slaughter -
I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
Lady Gaga -
As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
Kassie DePaiva -
It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.
Sammy Hagar Van Halen -
We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
Ted Cruz
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
Walt Mossberg -
It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov -
I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
Ted Yoho -
I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
Sam Elliott -
Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
Imelda Marcos -
I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'
Vik Muniz
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
Karl Kraus -
Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
Oscar de la Renta -
The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
Samuel P. Huntington -
I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.
J. H. Wyman -
Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.
Ferdowsi -
As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.
Zig Ziglar
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You know, plenty of people headed off to Canada or America on the basis of government information, propaganda campaigns. Often you'd go off with a brochure in hand and you'd turn up and it wouldn't be like that at all.
Emma Donoghue -
When mainstream Muslims defeat the Islamic State, that lessens the ability of the Islamic State to recruit and fund-raise.
Chris Gibson -
I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really do. Like Martin Amis. My dirty secret. 'London Fields' is one of my favorite books ever. And it's indefensible! But he's so funny... I forgive him everything.
Elizabeth Gilbert -
In my life, there have been a lot of people who weren't there for me, so to now have people counting on me is awesome.
Jimmy Graham -
When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way.
Jonathan Franzen