Stephen Greenblatt (Stephen Jay Greenblatt) Quotes
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
Olga Kurylenko
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
Ian Anderson
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
Haile Gebrselassie
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There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.
Harry Bridges
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
Barbara Bush
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
Wendy Kopp
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.
Kate Moss
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
E. M. Forster
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I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm doing that because it's in my own self interest to do it. I think that's good for my other shareholders because they go along with me: If I do well for myself, then they do well for themselves.
Harold Simmons
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I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.'
Fantasia Barrino
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Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.
Nazanin Boniadi
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I never had that wicked stepmother or evil stepfather thing at all. I'm very close to both step-parents and I consider them to be my parents, too.
Mark Ronson
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Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.
Haley Reinhart
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I was taught you don't tell your secrets to strangers - certainly not secrets that expose error, weakness, failure. My generation, like its predecessors, was taught that since our achievements received little notice or credit from white America, we were not to discuss our faults, lapses, or uncertainties in public.
Margo Jefferson
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I pray every night. I just talk to God and I can go to sleep. I don't worry anymore.
Anna Chlumsky
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Play and write music the way you want the world to be.
Wayne Shorter
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Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig.
Stephen Greenblatt
