Edmund White Quotes
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
Ralph Ellison -
I am not a 'defender' of the September 11 attacks, but simply pointing out that if U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
Ward Churchill -
The Internet has turned the world into one gigantic linked community, capable of instantly sharing vast amounts of incorrect information.
W. Bruce Cameron -
I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
I can't walk in an airport, walk into a gym, where the kids in the gym don't come to me and ask me about Allen and tell me he's their favorite player of all time. And everywhere I go in airports, people look at me, and they, 'You're Allen's coach.'
Larry Brown -
I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
Harold Pinter
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I remember a time when I was younger, when if you had to see an actor, you had to go to the theatre and watch a film.
Vikram Rohit Shetty -
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
E. Joseph Cossman -
Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.
Karl Rove -
As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.
Quavo Migos -
I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
Dan Webster -
Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
Eckhart Tolle
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Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.
Nathaniel Branden -
It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
Yogi Berra -
Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
Samuel Butler -
There is not love where there is no will.
Indira Gandhi -
The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
Barton Gellman
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We wanted to establish a new fan base over here. And second, we wanted to challenge ourselves. We wanted to bring what is ostensibly new music to fresh ears and see what lights them up.
Bob Weir Grateful Dead -
My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.
Caio Fonseca -
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.
Fred Tomaselli -
It's about transitioning from adolescence, when you live together with parents and see each other every day, to the era when you don't live together and start to grow apart and have to figure out how you're going to have an adult relationship.
K. M. Soehnlein -
It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
Edmund White