Uzodinma Iweala Quotes
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
Salman Rushdie
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I write songs as honestly as I can without worrying about genres or labels. Sometimes I sing, and sometimes I rap, and sometimes I do something in between. I jump around on stage and don't care too much about how I look. I try to be myself even though I'm still figuring myself out.
K. Flay
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I like to be lazy. I do like to be busy and really active, but when that's done, you can be sure I will be a lazy boy. I like to take time and relax and enjoy life.
Olivier Theyskens
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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
Orson Welles
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I've always tried to fight against, 'Oh, who's that small funny actress? Let's get her.'
Imelda Staunton
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
Fernando Pessoa
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I was one of those kids that could just show up and take the test and do well on it. I didn't study a whole lot.
Wendy Davis
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Every day, I get into fights with my brother, who is the most annoying person on the planet.
Alex Wolff
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When I was young my heart was young then, too. And anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do.
Morna Anne Murray
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A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than when it is done directly as a visual recording. This results in a kind of abstraction... and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration.
Wayne Thiebaud
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He was a long, stripy policeman, who flowed out of his uniform at odd spots, as if Nature, setting out to make a constable, had had a good deal of material left over which she had not liked to throw away but hardly seemed able to fit into the general scheme.
P. G. Wodehouse
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It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.
Adrian Rogers
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I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.
Cory Booker
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Politicians and bureaucrats are substituting their uninformed, largely political decisions for those of the marketplace. Their past miscalculations demonstrate that they do not and cannot possess the information, knowledge, means, and discipline to manage the economy.
Mark Levin
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Charisma is a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects.
Marianne Williamson
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The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
Elliot W. Eisner
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Can you think of a single situation, no matter how grave, where the atmosphere would not be instantly shattered with a loud fart - or a drawing of a butt? There is no faster way to create universal common ground.
Euny Hong
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I often feel like saying, when I hear the question 'People aren't ready,' that it's like telling a person who is trying to swim, 'Don't jump in that water until you learn how to swim.' When actually you will never learn how to swim until you get in the water. And I think people have to have an opportunity to develop themselves and govern themselves.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
