Studs Terkel Quotes
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.
M. J. Rose -
It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
Aaron Levie -
In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
Octavio Paz -
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
Carlos Santana Santana -
Consciously picking the right script after a long period of wait helped me grab a perfect film in the rom-com genre.
Yami Gautam
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Honestly, I'm willing to experiment with far more variety in roles than I'm given. But ultimately, it's the producer's decision. But, I've done a variety of roles - the evil don, the evil husband... I've done villainous roles, supporting roles, etc.
Kabir Bedi -
'If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom, I think that's the answer.' (talking about the United States State Department) 2
Pat Robertson -
I don't like kitten heels. I just don't think they are an attractive shoe because they always look so stumpy. And I would never wear cowboy boots: a pointy toe and little heel is just not my thing.
Jessica Hart -
Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
Phyllis Diller -
There's certain people you want to see in comedies; there's certain people you just want to see in dramas. Not that there aren't individuals who do both, but it's not everyone.
Marc Platt -
The only mistake guys can make is to try too hard with their appearance. There's something very unmanly about it.
Jeremy Irvine
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When I came to the last line of 'Car Crash While Hitchhiking,' I read it as a pitiless statement of indifference: a refusal to warn the family of their impending collision, a refusal to help when miraculously spared, a refusal to act on the empathy hiding behind the story's language.
Anthony Marra -
It's not the size of the house. It's how much love is inside.
Martina McBride -
People are perfectly glad to accept the idea that dogs love us, so they must be able to love each other.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas -
I was very troubled, yes. Me and my brother both - we were troubled and troublemakers.
Chloe Sevigny -
I give myself strength by staying away from any music.
Alannah Myles -
One of the biggest obstacles I've overcome in my life was thinking I didn't deserve to be successful. Artistically I'm not as much of a heavyweight as someone like Paul Simon or Joni Mitchell, because I'm not a creator of original music, and I worried about that for years.
Bonnie Raitt
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I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for tens of thousands of years. Having that experience was necessary to my perception of how photography can look at the changes humanity has brought about in the landscape. My work does become a kind of lament.
Edward Burtynsky -
Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison, but I don't have any desire to follow her on Twitter. I just want to read her books.
John Green -
I'm English and I am British. I don't know if I feel part of a music scene. Musically, I have as many feelings and affinity with Americans or Canadians, or all sorts of people as I do with English people.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
Costs of manufactured articles importantly depend on the cost of raw materials as well as labor, and the prices of many raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labor cost of producing them.
Charles Erwin Wilson -
'Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph.
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