Mose Allison Quotes
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The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
Fiona Apple -
I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
Abbie Hoffman -
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
Queen Victoria -
I don't drink hot beverages.
Gary Cohn -
People always ask me, 'Is there a rivalry between the Nickelodeon and Disney stars? Do you guys hate each other?' Like everyone has to be on one team. If you're a Selena Gomez fan, you can't be a Victoria Justice fan. We're both half-Latin, and people put us in the same category.
Victoria Justice
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By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
The way I work, things are very nuanced; not everything is explained.
Barry Jenkins -
Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
Barry Humphries -
The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
Wayne Rooney -
I am a Facebook voyeur. I feel bad about it because I never put anything on there, but I find it fun to sit there and watch peoples' lives go by. Or whatever lives they're presenting.
Eddie Kaye Thomas -
Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.
Patricia Norris
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I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.
Zadie Smith -
Take the great example of the four-minute mile. One guy breaks it, then all of a sudden everyone breaks it. And they break it in such a short period of time that it can't be because they were training harder. It's purely that it was a psychological barrier, and someone had to show them that they could do it.
Malcolm Gladwell -
As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
Pablo Picasso -
It's like the American democratic system. When you vote, even if your candidate doesn't win, you accept that democracy was in action. When people participate in a Tezos network, they're accepting that the democratic vote of the other coin holders will govern the way the protocol moves.
Olaf Carlson-Wee -
The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?
Edmond Rostand
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She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!
Virginia Woolf -
I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
Nancy Pelosi -
As long as one does not call his own position into question but regards it as absolute, while interpreting his opponents' ideas as a mere function of the social positions they occupy, the decisive step forward has not yet been taken.
Karl Mannheim -
If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.
Owain Yeoman -
I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me.
Mose Allison