Jonathan Franzen Quotes
I don't even read positive reviews unless they are absolutely certified by eight different people to not contain one thing that could upset me.Jonathan Franzen
Quotes to Explore
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
Walter Salles -
All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
Carl Bernstein -
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
Calvin Coolidge -
I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
Zachary Quinto -
You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
Jack Kemp -
In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
Harlan Coben
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
Ed Smith -
I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
Abbie Cornish -
I love bayou life.
Parker Posey -
What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
Barbra Streisand -
Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.
Venus Williams
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
Natalie Portman -
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
Barry Diller -
I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
Irina Shayk -
We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.
Nan Hayworth -
Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
Baba Kalyani -
We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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I was going from Furman to the University of Georgia. I transferred to play football.
Omari Hardwick -
Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.
Betty Buckley -
We’re interested in the peace but we understand that peace, justice and development go hand in hand. And I think we sent that message very strongly.
Jim Yong Kim -
The military people don't like it; the government probably doesn't like it, but the people should know what they're sending their young people into when they permit their governments to declare war and engage in war.
Walter Cronkite -
Football, like boxing, will never go away, just occupy a different role in the American zeitgeist.
Mary Pilon -
I don't even read positive reviews unless they are absolutely certified by eight different people to not contain one thing that could upset me.
Jonathan Franzen