Sappho Quotes
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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It's those damn critics again.
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I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
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You're either ghetto or you're not.
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My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.
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I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
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My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
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What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
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I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
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Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap.
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In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.
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I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.
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God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.
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I'm very primitive in terms of economics. The kind of new business in which stock gets more valuable because the company grows, but there must be limits to growth. But if publishing is expanding to fill that retail space, it seems like there may be a necessary and unpleasant correction waiting down the road. How many books to people WANT?
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Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me – the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love – He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us – nature did it all – not the gods of the religions.
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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
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Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
