Steve Toltz Quotes
Sometimes they people throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them.
Steve Toltz
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
Kara DioGuardi
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I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.
Ian Anthony Dale
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
Daniel Craig
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
R. Kelly
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
Ilya Ehrenburg
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I have people who say, 'You should dress up like this, or you should dress more modest; you should cover up more.' And then, at the other end of the spectrum, you have, like, 'Why are you still wearing your scarf? You're in America, you know.'
Yuna
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Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.
Carly Fiorina
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
Zach LaVine
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People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they've never realized that the word 'resurrection' simply didn't mean that.
N. T. Wright
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I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
Patrick O'Brian
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As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.
Kate Bernheimer
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Why consider debates in the English House of Commons in 1628 along with documents on American developments in the late eighteenth century? The juxtaposition is not capricious, because the Commons during this period generated many of the ideas that were later embodied in the government of the United States.
Edmund Morgan
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'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.
J. G. Ballard
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Singing is something I've always loved to do, and I'd never considered taking it further than the shower.
Hailee Steinfeld
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She understood at once, and with the courageous goodwill that sustained her, resigned herself to the fact: there was always a drawback. There had to be. Sometimes it was the lack of light, or a factory nearby, or not enough rooms. Here, it was a railroad.
Gabrielle Roy
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It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.
Barack Obama
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It is the asymmetry of the bonus system that got us here. No incentives without disincentives: capitalism is about rewards and punishments, not just rewards.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, 'I wish you hadn’t made every line funny. It’s so depressing.'
Quentin Crisp
