Nancy Milford Quotes
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
Baz Luhrmann -
We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
W. S. Merwin -
If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
Ira Glass -
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
Immanuel Kant -
I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'
Yulia Tymoshenko -
I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
Jack Germond
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
Nathan Fillion -
I've got a condo in Miami, but I don't live in it.
Young Thug -
When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike.
Caitlin Moran -
There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
Barton Gellman -
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
Mahatma Gandhi -
My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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The truth is I love musical theater and always have.
Idina Menzel -
Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they are doing other things, and it is just nice to see how other writers are writing.
Valerie June -
Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
Camryn Manheim -
I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
Sami Gayle -
We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
Vernor Vinge -
Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.
Abraham Lincoln
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It's interesting when something's written about you, and there's comments after.
Alison Stewart -
A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love.
Marianne Williamson -
Kids who don't have moms suffer a lifetime.
Laura Schlessinger -
You can instantly spot a Chanel woman, so I want to develop the Dior woman.
Raf Simons -
There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.
Nancy Milford