Walter Abish Quotes
Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous.Walter Abish
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I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.
Banksy -
That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
Oprah Winfrey -
I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.
Gabrielle Zevin -
Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
Wayne Dyer -
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
H. L. Mencken -
My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
Zendaya
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The point of the future is that anything can happen.
Viktor Orban -
Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
Van Wyck Brooks -
It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.
Sam Kinison -
In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.
Gary Wright -
I’ve lived here for 20 years and I have been a citizen for 10 years. I hope I am a good one. I know I don’t take it for granted. I feel I am an awfully lucky person to be an American and I think that every naturalized American and every person born in this land should kneel on his knees every morning and utter a prayer for being an American.
Bela Lugosi -
For many years when I was younger, I let negative things that people said about me affect my life. What I've learned is that it's really important to find the right support network, focus on the positive things in your life and quiet that negative voice in your head.
Brittany Snow
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I just like stuff that's raw, itself, real and genuine. I think that's the way art should be. That's the kind of stuff that people can connect to more.
Kali Uchis -
It's a visual world and people respond to visuals.
Joe Sacco -
My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else.
Marion Cotillard -
When someone is looking down, they're saying no. When they're looking up, they're looking to their brain for memory. When they look to the left, they're looking for a lie or something they memorized. When they look to the right, they're feeling sorry - they don't want to answer.
Duane Chapman -
The state is going to be present where it has to be for every Argentine, especially for the neediest of us.
Mauricio Macri -
Here is the most important thing for us all to remember, for the sake of our common sanity and safety: In America, the right to vote and democratically elect a president is just as precious and valued as the right to protest and express yourself against that president.
Ana Navarro
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I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas.
Alfred Kastler -
Dr. Louis Bush Swisher died from the complications of a brain aneurysm that burst without warning one sunny Sunday morning less than 40 years ago.
Kara Swisher -
Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.
Jeff Tweedy -
Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous.
Walter Abish