Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
Laura Riding -
The world is always in movement.
V. S. Naipaul -
I like films to be complete in their written form.
Patrice Leconte -
Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.
Edgard Varese -
Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
R. W. Apple, Jr. -
Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
E. L. Doctorow
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
Idris Elba -
In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
P. J. O'Rourke -
Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
Larry David -
Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
Uma Thurman -
It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
Yehuda Berg -
You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
Tami Hoag
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A lot happens in 20 years.
Pat Morita -
Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
Patrick Lencioni -
I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
Warren Rudman -
The luxury of radio is that you don't spend hours in make-up, and you can wear whatever you want. It's bizarre. You'll be saying lines, with various people around making sound effect noises.
Felicity Jones -
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
Malcolm McDowell
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I think I have good judgment.
Jim Finks -
Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!
Sarah Orne Jewett -
The Welfare Reform Act comes up this year for renewal. Is the President supporting efforts to insert meaningful work requirements into the bill, for today there is none? — February 18, 2004
Jeff Gannon -
I think that when you put yourself, as actors have to do, in other people's shoes, when you have to put on the costume that someone else has worn in their life, it gets much, much harder to be prejudiced against them and even to be - to not try to look at the world in a sense of "I'm not going to judge somebody. I'm going to try to understand who they are and what they're about."
Kevin Spacey -
Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.
Malachy McCourt -
My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
Jack Kerouac