Harry Mathews Quotes
I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.
Harry Mathews
Quotes to Explore
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I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.
Garth Brooks
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
Laura Moser
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After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.
Lara Spencer
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Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.
Malcolm X
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.
Haile Gebrselassie
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I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn't see them.
Vince Vaughn
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Sometimes you want a Part Two in your life.
Valerie Simpson
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Modesto tamen et circumspecto iudicio de tantis viris pronuntiandum est, ne, quod plerisque accidit, damnent quae non intellegunt.
Quintilian
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The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.
Alan Hovhaness
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If the enemy tortures, it defines their moral evil and all intelligence gleaned from such coercion is self-evidently false propaganda. If we do it, it isn't wrong, and it leads to good intelligence.Got that? And these people have the gall to describe their ideological opponents as moral relativists.
Andrew Sullivan
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If I hadn't an absolute faith in the harmony of creation, I wouldn't have tried for thirty years to express it in a mathematical formula. It is only man's consciousness of what he does with his mind that elevates him above the animals, and enables him to become aware of himself and his relationship to the universe.
Albert Einstein
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That was something that I learned: It's actually okay if the way that I do my best is when I'm treated well.
Jenny Slate
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So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.
Victoria Jackson
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People think I write weird, but there are people at Death Equinox that make me look like Danielle Steele.
Edward Bryant
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..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The revolution of ideas that will save us is a revolution of goodwill, of compassion, and of higher thinking. I believe that they outnumber the people who would choose fear. But they are not a particularly politicized force. If you look at the numbers of people buying books about revolutions from within and personal transformation as the key to global change, the numbers add up to a much greater audience than most people realize.
Marianne Williamson
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I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.
Harry Mathews
