Charles Reznikoff Quotes
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Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
V. S. Naipaul
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
Yani Tseng
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
Pat Brown
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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. This was where I discovered 'Encyclopedia Brown' and 'Nancy Drew,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Rebecca.' This was where I became inspired to be a writer.
Karin Slaughter
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
Gary Johnson
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
Lamar Alexander
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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
Hannes Alfven
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
Barry Manilow
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I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
B. B. King
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There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.
Pat Metheny
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Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
Pat Metheny
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I'm very careful. I think about everything. Some people go, 'Oh, I went out and bought something and didn't realise how much it was,' but there's no such thing with me. I always think about the future because I never want to go backwards.
Olga Kurylenko
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Unemployment is 'involuntary' when the price is above its market clearing level. Workers are unemployed because jobs are not available at the prevailing wages, period. The only recourse is to either expand the number of jobs or somehow lower the wage.
Dale T. Mortensen
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Every label thinks, when they sign someone, 'This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They're cute, they can sing, they can dance, et cetera.' And they say to the public, 'Here, this is what you're gonna like.' But you might say, 'No, I don't like that!' You'll probably say 'no' many more times than you'll say 'yes!'
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.
Olivia Wilde
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As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.
J. D. Hayworth
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Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
Camille Paglia
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I want to be treated like a musician.
Halsey
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There's no place in the world you can go and not hear rock-and-roll, from Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder to Phil Collins.
Ahmet Ertegun
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There is nothing puzzling ... about America's gratuitously aggressive foreign policy or about the oligarchs' successful efforts to drag the Republic into five wars. What an aggressive foreign policy accomplishes by slow degrees, a state of war accomplishes in a trice. Overnight [war] kills reform, overnight it transforms insurgents into traitors and the Republic into an imperiled realm. Overnight it strangles free politics, distracts and overawes the citizenry. Overnight it blasts public hope.
Walter Karp
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The Girl Scouts is where I became acquainted with the idea that a woman can do anything. Learning that early on has a tremendous impact on the development of a young girl's personality. It had a huge impact on me. Girl Scouts is where I first learned about philanthropy and fell in love with the concept of helping others-in my troop this was very important. We did a lot of community service like picking up trash and feeding the homeless. Loving humankind was something that echoed throughout my time at Girl Scouts.
Lisa Ling
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Along the road your steps may stumbleYour thoughts may start to strayBut through it all a heart held humbleLevels and lights your way.
Dan Fogelberg
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Always turn and face the attack.
Adolph Malan
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The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly.
Charles Reznikoff