Miranda July Quotes

Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.

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• The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Heart
  • War
  • Argument

• I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Think
  • Song

• Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Goal
  • Definitely
  • Sell

• There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Know
  • Find
  • Racism

• I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Energy
  • Gift
  • Creator

• I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.

  

  Tarja Halonen
  • Why
  • Discipline
  • Will

• Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • History
  • Know
  • Me

• I have no new voices - they've all been used.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • New
  • Used
  • Voices

• Lying is the rule, not the exception.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Lying
  • Rule
  • Exception

• My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Never
  • Books
  • React

• He's so interesting because you think you know Dennis Hopper, but you don't really know Dennis Hopper. I don't really know Dennis Hopper, I just know him from the silver screen.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Know

• On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Poetry
  • Books
  • Living

• My eldest son George had acute myeloid leukaemia when he was a tiny baby, he is now 20 and doing very well. He is a mini-miracle in many ways.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Son
  • Baby
  • Doing

• Sex isn't hard, but intimacy is terrifying.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Sex
  • Hard
  • Intimacy

• I want to do anything where people feel I can help make their franchise better and make a contribution.

  

  Larry Brown
  • People
  • Help
  • Better

• To a great experience one thing is essential - an experiencing nature.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Nature

• Before 1959, some Americans saw Cuba as something to exploit, ignored poverty, enabled corruption. And since 1959, we’ve been shadow-boxers in this battle of geopolitics and personalities. I know the history, but I refuse to be trapped by it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • History
  • Poverty
  • Shadow

• I am not against acting in a Hindi film, but I will take it up only if the story is right.

  

  Allu Arjun
  • Up

• Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today.

  

  Martin Feldstein
  • High
  • Today

• To cover politics in Washington allows you to live in the very, very wide gap between what the actual truth is, and how people are trying to manipulate the truth. They speak in the language of spin, obsequiousness, obfuscation. The meta of politics is just this endless source of material that can shed light on the psychology of the process.

  

  Mark Leibovich
  • People
  • Live
  • Trying

• President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be defeated. He was right.

  

  Pete Hegseth
  • War
  • Enemy

• As American freemen, we cannot but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and political liberty, but at the same time, we are warned by the admonitions of history and the voice of our own beloved Washington to abstain from entangling alliances with foreign nations.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Time
  • American
  • History

• Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.

  

  Miranda July
  • Time
  • Consent
  • Passed