Edmund White Quotes
I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.Edmund White
Quotes to Explore
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
Baz Luhrmann -
While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.
Park Shin-hye -
Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
Bai Ling -
To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
J. Paul Getty -
I really don't know life without wrestling.
Daniel Bryan -
Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
Bear Grylls
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
Hans Jonas -
I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
Oscar Pistorius -
When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.
LaDainian Tomlinson -
I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
Nathan Fillion -
I have to have a cheat day. I know when I'm being good all week long that come Sunday, I'm going to lie by the pool, have a drink, and eat some pizza.
Kaley Cuoco -
I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.
Gabriel Basso
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
Queen Christina -
I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
Najib Mikati -
I'm just a worker.
Calvin Johnson -
I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.
Naveen Jain -
I feel like if you enjoyed the 119 hours that precede the finale of 'Lost,' is that whole experience ruined by the fact that you might not agree with everything that we did in the finale? I would hope not! I would hope that you would appreciate the fact that you were entertained for 119 hours even if you didn't love the finale.
Carlton Cuse
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My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.
Warren Zevon -
Praying is not about asking; it's about listening... It is just opening your eyes to see what was there all along.
Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche -
To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with one’s own eyes, for example. One has no choice but to look at one’s reflection in the mirror. Through experience, we come to believe that the image is correct, but that is all.
Haruki Murakami -
That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.
Walt Disney -
Truth - is as old as God-.
Emily Dickinson -
I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.
Edmund White