Blake Butler Quotes
These were my people; cells in my best image; my negation and deletion. In seeing them, I named them, and they began to spurt. She leaned with her whole life to kiss me. I was awake again and so was Darrel, the most awake we’d ever been. I walked through the kitchen over the piles of sleeping or prone pleased bodies to pretend I could see out through the mirror over the window to the flat backyard.Blake Butler
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I can't change my bra size. They're natural! I can work out and I can stay healthy and motivated, but I can't change some things. I really just live my life. I love my body. It's what God gave me! I feel confident with myself, and if that inspires other women to feel confident with their bodies, great.
Kate Upton -
So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.
Patrick Warburton -
I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
Sade Adu -
The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
Zoltan Kodaly -
Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.
Mandy Bujold -
At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
Samuel Johnson
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I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.
Kanye West -
'You are welcome, most noble Sorceress, to the land of the Munchkins. We are so grateful to you for having killed the Wicked Witch of the East, and for setting our people free from bondage.'
L. Frank Baum -
Although we can discuss the question of what socialism is, what is its program and what are its tactics, one thing is obvious: the official Italian Socialist Party has been reactionary and absolutely conservative.
Benito Mussolini -
We’re building what’s called a private cloud for them the C.I.A., … because they don’t want to be on the public cloud.
Jeff Bezos -
A mass culture is a culture which can be appropriated by the meanest capacities without any intellectual or moral effort whatsoever. … Liberal education is the counterpoison to mass culture, to the corroding effects of mass culture, to its inherent tendency to produce nothing but 'specialists without spirit or vision and voluptuaries without heart.'
Leo Strauss -
When you've seen a lot of bad stuff and just want to enjoy your life and be happy and have your kids happy and have your friends happy, you just have a value system where it raises the bar on what's important.
Bob Saget
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The pressure is on the big teams.
Claudio Ranieri -
My thing of not playing offensive tackle is the health issue. I don't want to be that big. That could end up not being good for your health.
Austin Seferian-Jenkins -
There are servers, and there are people that are served. There's something contradictory about that in a democracy, certainly.
Lee Daniels -
You can't all of a sudden go to sleep one night and wake up Martha Stewart. It's bit by bit by bit.
Jen Lancaster -
I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.
Marilyn Hacker -
Humanitarianism is commendable, but not when you're demanding that others share the burdens and expense.
Bret Stephens
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In my life I do a lot of things but I never forget my training.
Haile Gebrselassie -
I'm mostly a mess, and I hide it pretty well a lot of time.
Sara Bareilles -
I think it's really a sign of great American strength that we do invest the money we do in technology, in these hard projects, in NASA.
John M. Grunsfeld -
I'm not concerned about what Donald Trump says about me. That doesn't matter to me. I'm going to stand up for immigrants. I'm going to stand up for American Muslims who are working hard in this country that they love and consider their own. I'm going to stand up for other women. I'm going to stand up for the right to choose.
Hillary Clinton -
When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
Laura Donnelly -
These were my people; cells in my best image; my negation and deletion. In seeing them, I named them, and they began to spurt. She leaned with her whole life to kiss me. I was awake again and so was Darrel, the most awake we’d ever been. I walked through the kitchen over the piles of sleeping or prone pleased bodies to pretend I could see out through the mirror over the window to the flat backyard.
Blake Butler