Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
Joanne Rowling -
Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.
Gary Becker -
When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
Randy Houser -
I have disassociated myself from that book.
Uta Hagen -
I wanted to make it a really strong point to not watch 'Battlestar Galactica' before starting 'Caprica' because I was afraid it was going to give me a lot of pressure and preconceived notions of what it was going to be like.
Magda Apanowicz -
When young women get called bossy, it's often because they're trying to exercise power without status. It's not a problem that they're being dominant; the backlash arises because they're overstepping their status.
Adam Grant
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Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.
Vanessa Bayer -
I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
Halldor Laxness -
Cultural values are, in themselves, neutral as well as universal, and so much depends on how individuals or ethnic groups use them. Values are influenced by so many factors such as geography, climate, religion, the economy and technology.
F. Sionil Jose -
Once we have something that is no longer under control, once technological development is yanked out of our hands, it doesn't have to continue to be beneficial to humans.
Jaan Tallinn -
I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too.
Gary Shteyngart -
The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
Salman Rushdie
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The circulation of capital realizes value, while living labour creates value.
Karl Marx -
As a third generation American I grew up with the obsessive idea of personal liberty which engrosses all Americans except the oldest and richest families.
Karl Shapiro -
The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
Oliver Goldsmith -
James Baldwin is probably the biggest influence on me from a literary perspective.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.
Agatha Christie -
You know, I think more people should watch women's basketball. It'd do so much for the game.
Kevin Durant
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The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.
Mark Akenside -
I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it.
George Strait -
Lies are essential to humanity.
Marcel Proust -
Even abstract shapes must have a likeness
Willem de Kooning -
Lies exist only to be extinguished.
Thomas Carlyle