Karl Kraus Quotes
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'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.
Karl Rove -
I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.
Edgard Varese -
We want to encourage people to talk to one another.
Kate Middleton -
I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
Orhan Pamuk -
We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.
Walter Kirn -
I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
Venus Williams
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I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.
Manolo Blahnik -
I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
Rachel Tucker -
I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
Sally Pearson -
I want every Grammy.
Young Thug -
I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
Calvin Klein -
When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
Nana Mouskouri
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
Edie Falco -
Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.
J. Michael Straczynski -
There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
B. B. King -
I want to direct every now and then, but I don't want to be a director.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
We want laws to be applied predictably.
Nancy Gibbs -
I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.
Mike Tyson
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Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That's the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.
Taylor Swift -
The Hindu nationalists see a religion near perfection save for the tampering of Muslims and Christians. So they fall upon these groups, rather than try to reform their own practices by drawing on India's sophisticated philosophical traditions.
Karan Mahajan -
Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
Harold S. Geneen -
People also respected my culinary acumen and my intelligence, and that was their whole thing. They flew me over, and it was this immersive experience.
Adam Richman -
Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
Karl Kraus