Vernon Howard Quotes
Take disturbance as an awakening sign that you misunderstand something you assumed you understood.Vernon Howard
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
Rachel Kushner -
I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
Rachel Cusk -
You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
Yoko Ono -
I think much of what you learn as a kid comes before age seven.
J. B. Pritzker -
In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.
Sam Harris -
English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history.
Rabih Alameddine
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
Orson Welles -
In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.
Yakov Smirnoff -
Just because you're born in a privileged family and have money doesn't mean you're happy. Happiness you can't buy. Happiness is something you need to work for.
Lapo Elkann -
I think, by nature, human beings are curious. And I think that's only amplified as an artist.
Haley Bennett -
Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran -
I only cook when I'm in love.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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For me, just being published feels like success.
Samantha Shannon -
The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves...
Wendell Berry -
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
Alexander Pope -
...the dark brought out the prostitutes, Malay divorcees mostly, quietly moving from light to light, gaudy and graceful, like other of night’s creatures.
Anthony Burgess -
Political ideals must be based upon ideals for the individual life. The aim of politics should be to make the lives of individuals as good as possible.
Bertrand Russell -
Fashion is an industry of action, not discussion.
Imran Amed
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A lot of my characters are born out of a small grain in a person that I heighten and take to that next level. They're not based on anyone I've ever met, but they are these extreme versions of something.
Lauren Lapkus -
Women today are wanting to work in the workforce but also come home and learn to bake cupcakes, to do calligraphy, to knit a blanket for their baby, to 3-D print something.
Brit Morin -
If you ask any of my close friends, they know I always complain that I never get to play my age.
Daniela Bobadilla -
If a girl comes to me first for a prom or a bar mitzvah and she likes the way she looks and her boyfriend likes the way she looks, she'll come back.
Betsey Johnson -
Take disturbance as an awakening sign that you misunderstand something you assumed you understood.
Vernon Howard