Daughn Gibson Quotes
I definitely straddled the line and hung out with high-school dirtbags. I'd tell my parents I was spending the night at my friend's but actually go to Philly and see a show at Starlight Ballroom. I would drink and do all that stuff, but I didn't set any barns on fire.Daughn Gibson
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
Mao Zedong -
When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
Abbe Pierre -
I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
Dane Cook -
Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.
Olive Schreiner -
In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
Zaha Hadid -
If your budget is in good shape and you are not indebted too much, you can do what the U.S. did at the beginning of the '30s - building railways, etc., but when you don't have that, you must be far more cautious.
Viktor Orban
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
Jack Kemp -
Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.
Sam Kean -
When I was teenager, Britney Spears was it - that was the pop world that was happening, and I knew I wasn't in it.
Valerie June -
Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was not defended against them.
Ian Frazier -
I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian,' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.
Wendy Liebman -
Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
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The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
Pam Grier -
I think all players reach a point in their career where it's natural to lose some of that hunger, that desire, to sort of break out or be a star.
Landon Donovan -
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
Warren Bennis -
The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.
Albert Einstein -
There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion model.
Linda Ronstadt -
The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
Lee Iacocca
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The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that it can ever be given a meaning; to say that it is ambiguous is to assert that its meaning is never fixed, that it must be constantly won. Absurdity challenges every ethics; but also the finished rationalization of the real would leave no room for ethics; it is because man's condition is ambiguous that he seeks, through failure and outrageousness, to save his existence.
Simone de Beauvoir -
You tell me these two were my parents, so now I know but it's a memory that you've given me. I'll remember the photo from now on, but not them.
Umberto Eco -
"We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves."
Nancy Chodorow -
I still get angry when older people assume that everyone in my generation, screws around. They're probably the same ones who think all kids use dope. It's true that we are more open than our parents but that just means we accept sex and talk about it. It doesn't mean we are all jumping into bed together.
Judy Blume -
I definitely straddled the line and hung out with high-school dirtbags. I'd tell my parents I was spending the night at my friend's but actually go to Philly and see a show at Starlight Ballroom. I would drink and do all that stuff, but I didn't set any barns on fire.
Daughn Gibson