Alex Kotlowitz Quotes
In a nation that likes to see itself as forgiving, we are mulishly unforgiving of those who have committed a felony...
Alex Kotlowitz
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I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.
Tavi Gevinson
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
Rachel Shelley
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I think it's a tough transition. It's easy to go from comedian to rapper, but to go from rapper to comedian is tougher.
Hannibal Buress
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
Samuel Johnson
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I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my studio. There are books around me all the time.
Barry McGee
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It's like, I don't think you understand, Michael Jackson's bedroom is two stories and it has, like, three bathrooms and this and that. So, when I slept in his bedroom, yes, but you understand the whole scenario.
Macaulay Culkin
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If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself - or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.
Oprah Winfrey
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I didn't have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal - because I think cinema should come from cinema. I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that's it. I don't know why we should transform them.
Agnes Varda
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Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.
Cordell Hull
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Maybe she had become tired of being the girlfriend of a condemned man. It also occured to me that maybe she was sick, or dead. These things happen. Anyway, after that, remembering Marie meant nothing to me. That seemed perfectly normal to me, since I understood very well that people would forget me when I was dead.
Albert Camus
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I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.
Will Durant
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The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great-grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities of the North as willing tools and the South as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to have control over their future.
Ahmadu Bello