Arthur Mitchell Quotes
Walk into a room, knowing you are somebody, somebody special. Don't ever let them smash that or pull you down.
Quotes to Explore
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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I was raised a Calvinist. You might think you know what that means, but let me explain it the way my mother preached it to my three sisters and me back when we were at home: 'I buy my girls Calvin Klein clothes, so that's all they know. Then, when they graduate from college, they have to figure out how to pay for them themselves.'
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We can overcome evil with greater good.
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You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
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I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.
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I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes.
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My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
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I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
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I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
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The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
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I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.
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I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did.
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I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.
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My literary success meant nothing to me.
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If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes you can't.
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I've been writing for years, you know, and when I get to a particular place, city, or different locale, I find myself first of all being challenged by those that love me to write more.
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God only knows what else is on the web about me.
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People often ask whether Obama passes the 'kishka test:' whether he likes Israel special, not in the same way he likes Taiwan or South Korea? Does he? I think the kishka test was decided when he visited Israel. I think the reaction there was emotional and genuine.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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Of course, when you're doing something that's unexpected, people are going to have a very specific point of view about it, but I think it's all good to have a healthy debate about who Hitchcock was and what that means to people. He means a lot of different things to a lot of different people because the films are so great. If the movies were not great, no one would be bothering to show any interest.
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Her last call, at midnight, had been the worst. "I'll pull your cock out of your asshole," she'd said, and for some reason her voice at that moment had reminded him of his mother's.
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Walk into a room, knowing you are somebody, somebody special. Don't ever let them smash that or pull you down.
