Ethan Canin Quotes
There has always been a tension in my life between the romantic and the practical. I can't hole myself up in a cabin and write down ideas for the rest of my life. I also need to be able to clean out a dog bite.Ethan Canin
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason -
There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.
D. L. Hughley -
The 'DuckTales' ensemble is clearly critical. There's the core set of characters - Scrooge, Webby, Launchpad, Huey, Dewey and Louie... Plus there's Gyro and Duckworth and Mrs. Beakley and so on. The cast is huge.
Warren Spector -
After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
Venus Williams -
I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.
Naguib Mahfouz
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One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.
Hanna Rosin -
All of his saves have come in relief appearances.
Ralph Kiner -
I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
Quentin Crisp -
There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.
Jack Prelutsky -
Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
Harold Pinter -
Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
Dan Savage
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I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
'Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth.
Edmund Phelps -
What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.
Malcolm Mclaren -
Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry.
Manfred von Richthofen -
It is important that a woman’s 'noes' be respected and her 'yeses' be respected. And it is also important when her nonverbal 'yeses' (tongues still touching) conflict with those verbal 'noes' that the man not be put in jail for choosing the 'yes' over the 'no.' He might just be trying to become her fantasy.
Warren Farrell -
We are removing the most important cultural roadblock to accepting the role of God as creator.
Phillip E. Johnson
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The word spirit comes from the Latin word for "breath" - spiritu - and the origin of the word spirituality has to do with breath and life force, the mysteries of the ancients and all this. The word is very suspect in much of the art world - the Western art world. Certainly, spirituality has become divorced from religious.
Chris Martin Coldplay -
Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man.
William Shakespeare -
A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.
Garrett Hardin -
There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.
Baltasar Gracian -
A lot of shows peak after a series and never get it back, but 'Breaking Bad' keeps the tension up all the time.
Miranda Raison -
There has always been a tension in my life between the romantic and the practical. I can't hole myself up in a cabin and write down ideas for the rest of my life. I also need to be able to clean out a dog bite.
Ethan Canin