Susan Sontag Quotes
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
Candice Olson -
I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.
Kate Bosworth -
There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
Ted Williams -
If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work, we can make a big difference in defending those values we share as Americans.
Laura Moser -
Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.
Irvine Welsh -
Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.
Hampton Sides
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To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.
Yancy Butler -
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
Edgar Allan Poe -
I feel a man, when married, becomes more balanced. All the extra-curricular activities are done away with. The focus is on work and family.
Ram Charan -
I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.
Jack Horner -
And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.
Wendell Pierce -
I've continually reminded myself that I never want to change. I could be on the cover of a magazine today, but next week someone else is going to be on that cover. You always have to remain the same person because when those opportunities end, guess what you have? You have you. And if you change from being you, you have nothing anymore.
J. R. Martinez
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Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
C. S. Lewis -
She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season.
P. G. Wodehouse -
One trusted machines. But one never expected machines to return the favor.
Alastair Reynolds -
Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely.
Christopher Hitchens -
Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.
Mary Douglas -
What I have to outline is action and plot because I'm not particularly good at that.
Janet Evanovich
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The incentive of a medal at the biggest sporting arena in the world is what drives me. Before I hang my gloves, I want to win the Olympic medal, and my performance at London will decide my future in the sport.
Mary Kom -
I earned the name from the Greek god Zelos who is the god of rivalry.
Zelo -
Space has no top, no bottom; in fact, it is bottomless both at the bottom and the top.
Edgar Wilson Nye -
I have been maturing as a teacher.
W. Howard Lester -
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
Susan Sontag