William Faulkner Quotes
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Immanuel Kant -
I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
Ike Barinholtz -
I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
Mads Mikkelsen -
I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
Jack Kerouac -
I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
Kat Edmonson -
Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
Victoria Justice
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I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.
Tavi Gevinson -
Individuals want to know that none of their own money is being invested in companies that put their profits ahead of international security.
Ted Deutch -
If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
Vincent Cassel -
A lot of times, people are ashamed of feeling weak and being rejected - so it's liberating to be able to sing about those things. And it's amazing when other people don't feel alone because they hear it.
Banks -
I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.
Barbra Streisand -
A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
A. Whitney Brown
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What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.
Karen Kain -
The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.
Barack Obama -
The blind date that has stood you up: your life.
Randall Jarrell -
God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.
Ulysses S. Grant -
He had never acted in his life, and couldn't play the pin in Pinafore.
P. G. Wodehouse -
The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.
Alfred North Whitehead
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I'd no idea if anyone was actually watching.
Kazuo Ishiguro -
In the US the problem has been, for instance, that Nazis have rights of free expression, right? But other kinds of racist speech is not protected. And you have to link the speech to conduct or to a certain kind of threat against minority population. I know that in Europe, this kind of framework doesn't exist in the same way so it's very difficult to make the analogy.
Judith Butler -
Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
Sadhu Vaswani -
Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.
William Faulkner