Edward Humes Quotes
Garbage has become one of the most accurate measures of prosperity in twenty-first century America and the world.
Edward Humes
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I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, we've been remaking 'Hamlet' for a hundred years, so it's no problem to me at all. A good story can be told in many different ways in different places; I just think it's interesting.
Baltasar Kormakur
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Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.
Lara St. John
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
Walter Kirn
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I have a rich, full, textured life.
Lainie Kazan
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I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.
Carl Reiner
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Steaming maintains some of the aubergine flesh's texture, which doesn't happen if you cook it in any other way.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'
Diana Ross
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Those are the ladies sitting in church. And in the same way that they might feel a joy and release on Sunday, they are still going to work on Monday. And that's who I was listening to during this process. And if at the end of my presidency they feel like I did a pretty good job, then I'll feel pretty good.
Barack Obama
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The only one that I think I could beat, if my life depended on it, would be the Predator. If it was in my territory, in my domain, with the guns that I've got, I think I could hurt him pretty bad. That's the only one, though. When you get into metaphysical creatures, they don't play fair.
Lance Henriksen
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If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
Arthur Ashe
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When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath.
August Strindberg
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Educated fools; from uneducated schools.
Curtis Mayfield
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Robert Frost
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Even when you hear about a comedian getting married, among comedians, we're always kind of like, what are they doing?
Jim Gaffigan
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My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Show me a religion that doesn't care about compassion. Show me a religion that doesn't care about stewardship of the environment. Show me a religion that doesn't care about hospitality.
Eboo Patel
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If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
Michael Harrington
