Dana Spiotta Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
Hannah Arendt -
Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, maybe black men and women will follow their example. We have a lot of faith and trust in President Obama because his integrity thus far has shown us a new level of manhood, fatherhood and husbandhood.
Tasha Smith -
We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
Dan Marino -
I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
Adam Brody -
There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
Yoko Ono
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
Jackie Robinson -
Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
Kate Fleetwood -
Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys -
We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
Karin Slaughter -
I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.
Canelo Alvarez -
I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.
Katha Pollitt
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
Karan Mahajan -
I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
Taylor Swift -
I think that, as a white person stepping into doing any sort of anti-systematic-racism type of work, asking yourself, 'What is your intention?' needs to happen on a consistent basis. Check yourself. Check yourself. Check yourself, like, constantly.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
Barack Obama -
Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
Sam Graves -
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
Hans Kung
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I'm one of those people who think that stories should have a beginning, a middle and an end, and then they're over, and then you tell the next story.
Jim Butcher -
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius -
It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others.
Bob Nelson -
I'm going to continue to work to be the best player in the world, and whenever that doesn't sound fun to me anymore, that's when it's over.
J. J. Watt -
I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
Dana Spiotta