Dan Bejar Quotes
Big, evocative words get thrown around, and people can sing along to passionately as if the lyrics just materialized out of the ether, largely because they don't ever seem to coalesce into a writerly voice.Dan Bejar
Quotes to Explore
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
Karl Kraus -
When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
Sally Rand -
America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
Olga Kurylenko -
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
Abraham Verghese -
Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
Camille Paglia -
The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remorse... Our system is crazy because we're planning to fail. Everybody needs something to grasp on to.
Lamar Odom
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I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
Salman Rushdie -
I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.
Ramez Naam -
My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observations suggest will need no pointing out.
Bayard Taylor -
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 -
A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.
Lance Morrow -
Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival. Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.
Jean O'Leary -
I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.
Ariel Gore -
I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.
Douglas Coupland -
With the discovery of vast new North American energy resources - thanks to the application of proven technologies like hydraulic fracturing and commonsense regulatory processes on non-federal lands - the U.S. government should no longer be in the business of spending taxpayer dollars on risky, exotic energy projects.
Fred Upton -
I can fool people that I was educated.
Jane Lynch -
I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose.
Arizona Muse
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Women just love to shop.
Natalie Massenet -
I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.
Mel Tillis -
I just want people to know you can get through stuff. I hope people can see that in what my life has been and where it is going.
Christine Quinn -
Even when God chose Israel, he did not create the people of Israel as he created its human members, as natural beings. Instead, God formed the people of Israel from individual human beings already living in the natural world, calling them into a new historical identity.
David Novak -
Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.
Betty Smith -
Big, evocative words get thrown around, and people can sing along to passionately as if the lyrics just materialized out of the ether, largely because they don't ever seem to coalesce into a writerly voice.
Dan Bejar