Daniel Clowes Quotes
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
Karl Ove Knausgaard -
If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.
Canelo Alvarez -
The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
Fay Vincent -
Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
Yves Saint Laurent -
I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
Tatiana Maslany -
My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
Tawni O'Dell
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I was an expert horseman.
Harry Carey, Jr. -
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
Carl Sandburg -
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
N. T. Wright -
There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.
Malvinder Mohan Singh -
Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
Wanda Sykes -
The only way to get to the other end of the pitch is to belt it and then belt it again.
Gary Lineker
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Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.
Orhan Pamuk -
The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
Ferdinand Marcos -
I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
Larry Bird -
I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.
Larry Hagman -
I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
Sam Brownback -
I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.
Sam Smith
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I just like playing unique characters that I love.
Kate McKinnon -
For me, every project is different, and it serves a different purpose.
Burna Boy -
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel Kant -
The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.
Edmund White -
There are people who look forward to spending their sunset years in the sunshine; it is my own retirement dream to await my death indoors, dragging strangers up dusty staircases while coughing up one of the most thrilling phrases in the English language: 'It was on this spot…' My fantasy is to one day become a docent.
Sarah Vowell -
Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.
Daniel Clowes