A.M. Homes Quotes
I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.A.M. Homes
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
R. Kelly -
I don't think I have a signature.
J. J. Abrams -
It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
Gavin Newsom -
I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
Ed Koch -
I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
Veronica Roth -
I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
Tamron Hall
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
Sally Mann -
Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
Carine Roitfeld -
I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
Obie Trice -
Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
Natalie du Toit -
At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
Dan Colen -
Some women are smarter than men, and some aren't. But to suggest to women that they deserve dominance instead of equality is at best a cheap applause line.
Brown Campbell
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
Walter Winchell -
Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
Xavier Dolan -
I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.
Iman -
Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
Wayne Dyer -
I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
Usain Bolt
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Avarice and injustice are always shortsighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt in the long-run the real interest of the landlord.
Adam Smith -
I'm an extraordinarily anxious person. I'm a typical actor: narcissistic and paranoid and all them things.
Joe Gilgun -
The more you limit your choices, thereby limiting thought, the more you can simplify your life and focus your energy elsewhere.
Cory Booker -
I've cancelled all my subscriptions to poetry magazines. I prefer to read the 'New Scientist.'
Anne Stevenson -
I don't like acting things; I like feeling things.
Dougray Scott -
I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.
A.M. Homes