Steve Martin Quotes
So, while fitting in, she was like a wicked detail standing out against a placid background.
Steve Martin
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I've been touring through Texas since I was 15, on my first tour ever.
Jack Antonoff
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I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.
Karan Mahajan
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In history, the millions win; that is democracy.
Nawal El Saadawi
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The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.
Salman Rushdie
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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 rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.
Garrett Hardin
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Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked 'What's the big idea?' knows, most big ideas are bad ones.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I am thankful that all the people in the world who absolutely, positively, know what God wants, usually kill mostly each other.
Elayne Boosler
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The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.
Aristotle
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The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.
Aristotle
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I got a flash of ... what it means, now, 'you can't be too rich or too thin.' How well it works, will keep on working, because the vast majority of women will never be thin. Thin enough. How well the hope of class mobility keeps every mother dieting, and handing the diets down to her daughter, hoping the daughter may do even better. When you combine this with the fact that many non-white peoples tend to be heavier than white folks, dieting becomes a tool not only in enforcing class but in encouraging assimilation.
Elana Dykewomon
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I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heat that judges you. I never thought you but a good man, John-only somewhat bewildered.
Elizabeth Proctor
