Wallace Thurman Quotes
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His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
Edmund Wilson -
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Karl Marx -
When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
Park Shin-hye -
I've been doing African dance all my life.
Naima Adedapo -
There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
Oscar Levant -
I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
Lainie Kazan
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
Randy Houser -
'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'
Hannah Simone -
I understand those who don't like me.
Vanessa Paradis -
Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.
Dale Archer -
I think when you're telling a story from inside of you that's genuine, people connect with it.
G-Eazy -
I come with bad genetics, personally.
J. B. Pritzker
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I don't like being weak in front of my mum or anyone for that matter. I don't like crying.
Abbey Clancy -
There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.
J. K. Simmons -
I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
Bebe Rexha -
French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it is a cynical, individualistic school of thought that posits the self and personal choice as the measure of life's entire meaning.
Naomi Wolf -
When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed.
Walter Russell Mead -
Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.
Vince Gill
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God preserve us! If men knew what is done in secret, no one would be free from the interference of others.
Saadi -
I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.
Jeff Foxworthy -
We have but one Saviour; and that one Saviour is Jesus Christ our Lord. Nothing that we are and nothing that we can do enters in the slightest measure into the ground of our acceptance with God. Jesus did it all.
B. B. Warfield -
Every woman should try a Brazilian wax once. And then the sex they have afterward will make them keep coming back!
Eva Longoria -
“I am reminded again that the greatest phrase ever written is words, words, words.”
Wallace Thurman