Sydney Biddle Barrows Quotes
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A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.
H. P. Lovecraft
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig
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We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
Ramez Naam
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
Gary Hart
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My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.
Yoko Ono
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There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.
Gary Bauer
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I know some people are really comfortable with talking about their feelings and hopes and fears in public, but I'm not, and I don't think it's that extraordinary.
Natasha Little
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
Walter Kirn
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I like hanging around the set and learning how people do things, how the set runs.
D. B. Sweeney
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
Taya Kyle
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I've always been a leader my whole life. I've always led. I didn't know how to do anything else.
Magic Johnson
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Matangi's mantra is aim, which is MIA backwards. She fights for freedom of speech and stands for truth, and lives in the ghetto because her dad was the first person in Hindu mythology who came from the 'hood, but had gained enlightenment through not being a Brahmin.
M.I.A.
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The success that Americans are said to worship is success of a specific sort: accomplished not through hard work, primarily, but through the ingenious angle, the big break. Sit down at a lunch counter, stand back up a star. Invest in a new issue and watch it soar. Split a single atom, win a war.
Walter Kirn
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You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he ran on, the budget deficit, was in and out of the race a couple of times, and still got 20 million votes, didn't have the Internet.
Hamilton Jordan
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I'm very confident in my sexuality, and I really don't like talking about my romantic life in the press.
Jack Falahee
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I was fat, and that was awful because when you're young and sensitive, you think the world is over because you're fat.
Maeve Binchy
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Some things are very low profile, but if they excite me creatively, I accept them. Sometimes there are high-profile projects, and you have to do it. We all have human limitations. It is a painful decision to turn things down. Even accepting 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a decision that I had to sacrifice another project.
A. R. Rahman
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I have to lead a very small life in terms of what people think 'Hollywood' is. It's a full life for me, but I'm not jetting across the world. But life is good.
Octavia Spencer
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The wonderful thing about writing for theatre is you can go anywhere you want with the language. There are no limits. With film, they frown on language - it's always 'Too many words.'
Sam Shepard
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God's a funky little dude because everyone's looking for Him and no one can find Him.
Prince
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Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?
Zubin Mehta
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After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right information, it feels like gold.
Edwidge Danticat
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Where was I?""A different island," said old Tallow. Her voice was stern, but there was an ache in her look that Omakayas had never before seen. "An island called Spirit Island where everyone but you died of the itching sickness- you were the toughest one, the littlest one, and you survived them all.""You were sent here so you could save the others," she said. "Because you'd had the sickness, you were strong enough to nurse them through it. They did a good thing when they took you in, and you saved them for their good act. Now the circle that began when I found you is complete.
Louise Erdrich
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Sex is a commodity just like anything else.
Sydney Biddle Barrows
