Damon Galgut Quotes
Traveling is one of few zones of experience where you are not directly plugged into the world around you. You're not part of the society you're passing through.Damon Galgut
Quotes to Explore
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch Spinoza -
What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
Orison Swett Marden -
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Walter Scott -
If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
Bebe Rexha -
Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.
Larry the Cable Guy -
Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
Gates McFadden
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
Vernon Howard -
I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.
Rachel Griffiths -
I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.
Zosia Mamet -
IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
Jack Ma -
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
Natalie Clifford Barney -
Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
Harold Evans
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I take a lot of pictures.
Damian Loeb -
I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
Wavy Gravy -
I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
Floyd Skloot -
I'm a way bigger worrier than I ever was before I had kids. And, you know, the stress and anxiety that can go along with motherhood, I have had to battle that.
Natalie Maines -
Saudi had been a very restricted place. Even on the magazines there, if there was a little leg or cleavage showing, they used to blacken it with a black mark. Me and Ishmeet, so many times, had tried to remove the black portion with our spit, but of course, it would never come out.
Karan Singh Grover -
There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
Vincent Bugliosi
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Gaston Bachelard -
I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'
Aaron Sorkin -
India's sprawling subcontinent can never become a plus-size Singapore. But perhaps we can weave together an urban web that is the equivalent of a thousand Singapores.
Anand Mahindra -
We've always had a dark atmosphere to our performances, so it sort of developed along those ways.
Kenny Hickey -
Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic!
Jack Vance -
Traveling is one of few zones of experience where you are not directly plugged into the world around you. You're not part of the society you're passing through.
Damon Galgut