Charles Hugh Smith Quotes
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
Kabir Bedi
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I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.
Eartha Kitt
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Basically, it's in your best mental interest to release your anger so you can see the world more clearly around you and seek better solutions for finding the happy, love-filled life you desire and deserve.
Karen Salmansohn
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Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.
Abraham Verghese
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If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.
Yossi Vardi
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I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.
Olivier Megaton
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
Hannah Arendt
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Unmoved though Witlings sneer and Rivals rail, Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail. He scorns the meek address, the suppliant strain. With merit needless, and without it vain. In Reason, Nature, Truth, he dares to trust: Ye Fops, be silent: and ye Wits, be just.
Samuel Johnson
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It seemed to be pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
Oliver Goldsmith
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His conduct still right, with his argument wrong.
Oliver Goldsmith
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In der Kunst ist das Beste gut genug.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.
Joan Didion
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I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.
Gene Tierney
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There's always a positive to those negative times, because you come out of it so much stronger and wiser. Strength comes from every hardship, and it's been a lesson for me.
Christina Aguilera
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So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.
Saunders Teddell
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It's the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I'm a daydreamer; I don't feel in harmony with my epoch or the societies I live in.
Amin Maalouf
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Reality, unlike perception, cannot be changed by propaganda.
Charles Hugh Smith
