Rabih Alameddine Quotes

I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.

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• I voted for Barack Obama.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
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• Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

  

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• I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.

  

  Ian Rankin
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• First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.

  

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• Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
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• When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!

  

  Barbara Mandrell
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• You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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• I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
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• Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
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• Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
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• 'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Choices
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• I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Will
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• Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
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• Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.

  

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• All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.

  

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• A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.

  

  Kaia Gerber
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• The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Up
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• I just think they're really insecure about themselves sometimes. I know all the girls, but we all work a lot and don't have time to hang out together. They're all really nice; I've never had a problem with any model.

  

  Adriana Lima
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• Long before 'American Idol', people used to call me a diva. And I be like, 'Hold on, are you calling me something else on the sly? You gonna call me a diva, call me a good diva.'

  

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  • Long

• You may not quite understand the cinematic tricks that go behind the making of a film, but as long as you feel it, I think that's the important thing.

  

  James Wan
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  • Long
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• Words do have a limited range of meaning, and no interpretation that goes beyond that range is permissible.

  

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• The cardinals have elected me, a simple, humble worker in the Lord's vineyard.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Simple
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• I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Time
  • Long
  • Literature