Tomas Transtromer Quotes
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
Jack Straw -
I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
Zara Larsson -
When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
G. Willow Wilson -
I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
Dana Ashbrook -
I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
Ted Yoho -
Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
Gary Wolf
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
Walter Benjamin -
I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
Patricia Highsmith -
A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
Ovid -
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
Wayne Dyer -
I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
Ed Koch -
People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
Adam Osborne
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Where liberty dies, evil grows.
Hamid Karzai -
Sometimes, trying to make a work of art can be very difficult and very painful.
Mandy Patinkin -
Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer. So my being able to reach the masses was something that meant a great deal to me - especially for women who could never wear Vera Wang.
Vera Wang -
There's a tiny number of Bitcoin wizards and an enormous number of smart developers that have no onramp to Bitcoin. We need to make that onramp easier.
Balaji S. Srinivasan -
When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.
Saint Ambrose -
It's very liberating to cut your hair.
Pamela Anderson
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I love Elektra. I really have a special place in my heart for her. It was very enjoyable for me to discover her and to adapt her for this project and bring myself to this character. So I have a special spot for her.
Elodie Yung -
Quite frankly, I'm tired of taking insulin and pumping my stomach every three days and pricking my finger and drawing blood out of it every day - it's a tedious, meticulous, annoying disease that never goes away. And I want to get rid of it like everybody else does.
Elliott Yamin -
When I was younger, I used to be very impatient with anyone who wasn't doing overtly political work. I've since come to feel that some writers have an appetite or a need for the political, for political discourse, for historical political subjects.
Tony Kushner -
At the core of my work there is this eternal back-and-forth between being confined to one's own individuality and that longing to be part of the other, the outside world: the impossibility of ever being able to get beneath another person's skin.
Beat Streuli -
I am still the place where creation does some work on itself.
Tomas Transtromer