Joyce Carol Oates Quotes
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
Randy Neugebauer -
My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys -
What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.
Randy Quaid -
I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.
Taylor Swift -
Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.
Vanessa Mae
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That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.
Barack Obama -
What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Carl Sagan -
Not an unconscious state Or mental chloroform without wilful return,Samadhi but extends my realm of consciousnessBeyond the limits of my mortal frameTo the boundaries of eternity,Where I, the Cosmic Sea,Watch the little ego floating in Me.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
Elizabeth Bowen -
Restaurants are like kids. You hope you understand their innate gifts, and then you let them realize their aspirations.
Danny Meyer -
When I watch myself on TV, it's impossible not to say, 'Is that really what my neck looks like?'
Chaley Rose
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It's irresponsible to put uncorroborated information on the Internet.
Jake Tapper -
The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.
Frederick Soddy -
I can really serve the audience instead of making this about me and about serving myself and my pocketbook.
Lisa Lampanelli -
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca -
The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English.
Bobby Jindal -
I've grown up feeling very American but being constantly bothered by people - there's internalized racism and feeling weird about being second-generation.
Kelela Mizanekristos
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Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we deem important to the society and the individual.
Jacques Barzun -
I have very distinct memories about growing up as part of what was then a very small Jewish community in Buffalo Grove, IL.
Jami Attenberg -
About time, what I really learned from studying English is: time is different with timing. I understand the difference of these two words so well. I understand falling in love with the right person in the wrong timing could be the greatest sadness in a person's entire life.
Xiaolu Guo -
I don't know, if somebody doesn't tell me how would I know?
H. R. Giger -
I don't care how I feel. When they need me, I'll be there. There's no tomorrow; every game counts. If not, I probably would have gone on the DL, gotten it healthy and come back strong. Right now, I don't have that time.
Gary Sheffield -
A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.
Joyce Carol Oates