Harvey Milk Quotes
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
Barbara Deming -
When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
Karl Marlantes -
I don't want to lose my legs, you know. I don't want to be wheeled around in a wheelchair. I don't want to be attached to a catheter. I saw all that stuff happen to my father, and as much as it upset me because I loved my father so much, it also really traumatized me.
Dan Hill -
When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
Ferran Adria -
As I've always said: The future lies ahead.
Pat Paulsen -
My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
Pat Barker
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I think I have a passion for playing the game. I love to play, and I want to play at a high level. You have to do the right things in order to continue at that level.
Dan Marino -
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
Walter Bagehot -
I like to read novels where the author seems knowledgeable, like someone you know you could walk calmly next to through a complicated situation, and he or she would be alive to its meaning and ironies. And you wouldn't even have to mention them out loud to each other.
Rachel Kushner -
I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software program.
Wang Leehom -
Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gift she had.
Walter Martin -
Every sitcom needs their straight man or straight woman.
Aarti Mann
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I'm obsessed with brows, so Revlon's ColorStay Eyebrow Liner is a must, and the Just Bitten Kissable Balm Stain in Rendezvous is another obsession.
Zoe Foster Blake -
The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.
G. Gordon Liddy -
I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).
Abraham Lincoln -
Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
Art persists, it timelessly continues.
Oscar Wilde -
I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.
Ehud Olmert
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
Foster Friess -
I believe the greatest achievements of your life lie ahead of you.
Brian Tracy -
The heavenly bodies are nothing but a continuous song for several voices (perceived by the intellect, not by the ear); a music which... sets landmarks in the immeasurable flow of time. It is therefore, no longer surprising that man, in imitation of his creator, has at last discovered the art of figured song, which was unknown to the ancients. Man wanted to reproduce the continuity of cosmic time... to obtain a sample test of the delight of the Divine Creator in His works, and to partake of his joy by making music in the imitation of God.
Johannes Kepler -
When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
Malcolm Gladwell -
I'm extremely interested in science as the mythos within which I live. Science tells me what kind of animal I am, what kind of a universe I live in. It's always deepening my understanding of the natural world.
Alison Hawthorne Deming -
Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.
Harvey Milk