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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I would like to be known for honest, relatable writing and stories that that are real. There's just this shift I think is happening in a lot of society right now where being your most real self, however embarrassing or vulnerable or weird that is, is the coolest. I feel like that's what Lena Dunham's about and Amy Schumer's about.
Cam -
A lot of people have something to say about 'Wuthering Heights,' but nobody quite nails it.
Andrea Arnold -
Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi -
I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
Patrick Marber -
I played rugby in the winter, cricket in the summer, and for a brief period was on the books at Cardiff City. Athletics was only sports day for me. In fact, I never really liked it. I was never too keen on a sport that didn't have a ball at your feet.
Lynn Davies -
It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
Edmund White