Stewart O'Nan Quotes
All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.
Stewart O'Nan
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I'm a normal consumer but try to do the best I can. I try to buy locally, and I mostly avoid supermarkets.
Imelda May
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Mac continued to write scathing commentary on assorted hypocrisies in high places and low, without which hypocrisies, he cheerfully conceded, civilized life would be impossible.
Jack McDevitt
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'No interviews. No panels. No speeches. No comments,' he Wasserman ordered his agents. 'Stay out of the spotlight. It fades your suit.'
Lew Wasserman
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My God, I have almost never believed in you, and yet I have always loved you.
Antonio Porchia
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I love being middle-aged in general. I'm more at peace with myself now. I still have tormented times, but they are few and far between. You don't feel you have to be the centre of your world when you get older. Becoming a mother had been a turning point which stopped me from being the centre of my world.
Alison Moyet
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The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
Denis Waitley
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The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas.
Paula Abdul
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To me, what I'm interested in, in the end, is the meaning of food in our lives.
Jose Andres
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I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is a source of satisfaction,for it means, essentially, that he will always be able to find someone like himself.
Flannery O'Connor
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Religious apologists complain bitterly that atheists and secularists are aggressive and hostile in their criticism of them. I always say: look, when you guys were in charge, you didn't argue with us, you just burnt us at the stake. Now what we're doing is, we're presenting you with some arguments and some challenging questions, and you complain.
Anthony Clifford Grayling
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The choices we've made throughout our lives affect whatever happens to us in any given moment.
Oprah Winfrey
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One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly discovered facts.
Albert Einstein
