Josef Skvorecky Quotes
Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I like a fresh face. I like clean skin. Fresh skin, cute color on the lip, cat eye, mascara, and I'm good to go!
Becky G
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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. King
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The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.
Mae Jemison
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
Barry Ritholtz
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Jacob Bronowski
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.
Warren Spector
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I never feel there's anything I can't do.
Daniel Clowes
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The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.
Oleg Cassini
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
Warren Farrell
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
Karolina Kurkova
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I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.
Laura Dern
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Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.
Carly Fiorina
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
B. B. King
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As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.
Karen Thompson Walker
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If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world.
Edmund White
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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Victor Hugo
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I've suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.
Lady Gaga
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Cats and dogs are a very good window into the natural world: a chance to see how another species lives and deals with its problems, what they like and what they don't like.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
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When I discovered eyelash extensions, it was like the sea has parted; the sun came out. It was everything.
Andrea Navedo
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I deep sea fish a lot.
John Entwistle The Who
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I have nothing but great respect for great scholars. But I was in grad school in the '80s and '90s, at the height of the theory craziness. It had a big part in why I ended up becoming a writer rather than a scholar, because I thought, "I just can't play these games." I was interested in literature because I loved literature, and so much of the theoretical positioning, at that moment 25 years ago, was antagonistic to literature. You know, trying to show that Jane Austen is a terrible person because she wasn't thinking about colonialism.
Daniel Mendelsohn
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Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.
Josef Skvorecky