Joyce Carol Oates Quotes
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
L'Wren Scott -
It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
Kate Adie -
You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
Barry Ritholtz -
I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
Mackenzie Astin -
The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
Barbara Corcoran -
I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.
Garret Dillahunt
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My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
Karin Slaughter -
I have done a lot of work for affordable housing, rental housing. I understand the rap on me and other liberals is, oh, we push poor people into homeownership. And it's exactly the opposite of the case. We were trying to prevent those kinds of bad loans.
Barney Frank -
'Latina' has become part of the Becky G family, and I feel very proud to say that.
Becky G -
Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
Imtiaz Ali -
We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
Candice Patton -
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Rabindranath Tagore
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In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang 'em, I gave myself goosebumps.
Sammy Hagar Van Halen -
And the hooded clouds, like friars,Tell their beads in drops of rain.
Rain -
Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.
Andy Grove -
We have all heard of these things before. The love letter arriving as the teacup falls. The guitar striking up as the last breath sounds out. I don't attribute it to God or to sentiment. Perhaps it's chance. Or perhaps chance is just another way to try to convince ourselves that we are valuable.
Colum McCann -
One of the difficulties for me is that I'm naturally very skinny, so the problem that I have is trying to keep weight on, put weight on. I have to eat six, seven times a day, and I have to have a lot of carbohydrates to try and fatten me up so I have something to turn into muscle.
Charlie Cox -
The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.
Jared Diamond
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I've got good vibes up here in the Akron area, Cleveland area.
Jason Day -
If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.
Maxwell Anderson -
Kids shouldn't see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn't care.
Linda Blair -
It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.
Gaines Adams -
Art is the highest expression of the human spirit.
Joyce Carol Oates