Susan Sontag Quotes
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I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.
Vera Wang -
I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.
Sam Hunt -
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
Samuel Butler -
I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
Hailey Bieber -
The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.
Gary Lineker
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Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
Patricia Hill Collins -
It's really important, especially for young girls, to see that if you fall down, you get back up. If you get sick, you get back up. People are going to say what they want.
Kat Graham -
I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
Carlene Carter -
I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
Kareena Kapoor Khan -
One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.
Irving Kirsch -
My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
Victoria Woodhull
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I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
Xander Berkeley -
I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.
Nas -
Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
Larry Gagosian -
When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.
D. A. Pennebaker -
I grew up in an acting family. I was heavily discouraged from doing it myself when I was young, which is the only responsible route to take with any child, because it's not necessarily the easiest of lives.
Jack Davenport -
The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.
Talcott Parsons
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First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way you want to read.
Nicholson Baker -
Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.
Seneca the Younger -
They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.
Ernest Hemingway -
No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security.
Joe Biden -
I never want to listen to the songs in front of people close to me. There's an emotional honesty in that place where it's not earnest but it's vulnerable.
Yannis Philippakis -
Literature is dialogue; responsiveness.
Susan Sontag