Emily Haines Quotes
That's the main work that I've done in my life - really wanting to get past that gender trap where there's a certain nudity in poetry. It's not about showing my soul, it's about observations.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
Maj Sjowall
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
Sam Kean
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
Sam Smith
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Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
Karl Liebknecht
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
Walter Kohn
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The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
Barack Obama
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Well, I'm a professional.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
Zach Galifianakis
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
Walter Kaufmann
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The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
Beau Willimon
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Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.
Eduard Shevardnadze
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My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
T-Pain
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My name is Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown. I am a devoted servant of Allah, and an unwavering devotee to His cause. For more than 30 years, I have been tormented and persecuted by my enemies for reasons of race and belief.
H. Rap Brown
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I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.
Karen O
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Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.
Edsger Dijkstra
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I have a new show now called 'The Bridge,' where I play a guy who's a real-life guy. My character's based on the life of a guy named Craig Bromell who was a cop for 12 years and then became head of the police association, so basically the president of the union for 85,000 cops.
Aaron Douglas
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Being God would be the ultimate.
Macy Gray
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From Nike, we buy victory. From Under Armour, we buy protection. From Lululemon, we buy zen. From Patagonia, we buy conservation. From BMW, we buy performance.
Andy Dunn
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I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.
Gary Allan
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I decided to make pictures of fragments, images that would spill off the canvas instead of recede into it like a medicine cabinet. I wanted to find images that were in a 'nether-nether-land': things that were a little out of style but hadn't reached the point of nostalgia.
James Rosenquist
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I'm a Jew. I'm fascinated by our culture and our history, by what made us the people we are. It influences every breath I take. It informs and guides me. Without it, I'd just be a vacuum.
Mandy Patinkin
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That's the main work that I've done in my life - really wanting to get past that gender trap where there's a certain nudity in poetry. It's not about showing my soul, it's about observations.
Emily Haines Broken Social Scene