Mona Simpson Quotes
In every person's face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother, you always looked at her mouth.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
W. Somerset Maugham
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What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.
Narada Michael Walden
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What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.
Walter Martin
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
Ace Frehley Kiss
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There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage.
Ted Cruz
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Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.
Umberto Eco
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No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.
Vicente Fox
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The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
Indira Gandhi
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Usually when you get a script from actors, you don't have high expectations.
Patrick Whitesell
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At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.
Irwin M. Jacobs
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Being a big fan of 'Glee,' I want to do the show justice.
Samuel Larsen
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No man can visualize four dimensions, except mathematically … I think in four dimensions, but only abstractly. The human mind can picture these dimensions no more than it can envisage electricity. Nevertheless, they are no less real than electro-magnetism, the force which controls our universe, within, and by which we have our being.
Albert Einstein
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I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away.
Charles Evers
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I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was very straight-laced, but I had a friend whose mother spoke in tongues. I was just wild for this family. My own parents were older, and they were so over-protective. I just loved the 'letting go' that would happen when I went to church with my friend.
Lee Smith
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I saturated myself with the improv community.
Kay Cannon
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The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
Charles Lamb
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Documentaries make a difference.
Paul Watson
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Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.
Donald Kagan
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I don't like to watch myself. I can't get into the story; I'm too critical.
Cheyenne Jackson
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I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.
Peter Jennings
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We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.
William Butler Yeats
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Trying to conceal the fact that I was a gay, effeminate, hyperactive, adopted child with a serious lisp in southern Louisiana would have been like trying to hide Dolly Parton in a string bikini!
Kevyn Aucoin
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Black people have been killed for directing their gaze at the wrong person. I want my subjects to reclaim their right to look, to see, to be seen.
Dawoud Bey
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In every person's face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother, you always looked at her mouth.
Mona Simpson