Eudora Welty Quotes
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I like to start my day with a glass of coconut water, some protein powder, and a mix of things - goji berries, flax seeds, hemp seeds, even the flesh of a coconut or anything with a lot of fibre. I often add bananas, or eggs - fried or boiled - to my breakfast.
Nargis Fakhri
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Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
Warren Spahn
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The fundamental problem is not that Trump has access to the nuclear launch codes, but that they exist at all.
Valerie Plame
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Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.
Iman
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In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
Baz Luhrmann
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I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium until 2012, I don't care.' I then won Olympic gold.
Laura Trott
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair
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I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't.
Nancy Roman
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If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
Zooey Deschanel
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He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
Lao Tzu
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Man is an imagining being.
Gaston Bachelard
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I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'
Quincy Jones
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It is a fantastic initiative by the ministry to develop Aakash Tablet, a mobile device that can be utilised by students anywhere. It was successfully tried out. The second and third versions have come out and the fourth version is on the anvil.
Pallam Raju
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'Air' is what the world looks like: An inconvenient mashup of human politics and divine geography. We leave bits and pieces of ourselves and our history in every place we encounter.
G. Willow Wilson
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The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborghini to the Grand Prix track to watch the charter buses race.
P. J. O'Rourke
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It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
Maya Angelou
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I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system.
Kevin Kline
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A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.
Flannery O'Connor
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It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.
Barbara Hambly
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I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.
Steve Martin
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And I'm always surprised at who's there when you fail, ... It's usually not the people you expect to be there. It's easy to have friends when you're winning. And Jerry Maguire was kind of about that. This was about that, but it's like success and failure get trumped by an even bigger issue, which is, 'Are you going to be truly alive, and do you even know what that is?'
Cameron Crowe
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All those songs are totally timeless. They'll always stand up because they came from a real place. They weren't crafted songs. They were written from the heart.
Shooter Jennings
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If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written.
Eudora Welty