Edmund White Quotes
My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.Edmund White
Quotes to Explore
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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
Napoleon Hill -
Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Immanuel Kant -
I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
Vikram Seth -
The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
L. Sprague de Camp -
I'm not just a rapper. I'm a child educator.
Fat Joe
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Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.
Aaron D. O'Connell -
My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
Carlos Santana Santana -
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
Ramsey Clark -
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
Rachel Johnson -
You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
J. J. Abrams -
I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
Octavia Spencer
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
Abraham Cowley -
All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
Carlos Castaneda -
Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
Adam Peaty -
I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.
Naveen Jain -
Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead
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A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I didn't want to write another book about fraudulence.
Ben Lerner -
I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.
Neko Case -
For many little girls, life with father is a dress rehearsal for love and marriage.
David Jeremiah -
Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now.
Jerry Coleman -
My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
Edmund White