David Markson Quotes
You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.
David Markson
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
Barry Hannah
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No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.
Larry McMurtry
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If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.
P. J. O'Rourke
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We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
Salman Khurshid
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Viktor E. Frankl
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People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.
Ted Koppel
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I just want to say, that if Jesus were alive, what would he be doing? Well, he would probably be accepting and loving people how they're made. And I always say this and it's really the truth. If being 4'11 was a sin, what would I do? Well, I could wear heels and I could add a wig.
Kristin Chenoweth
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In Los Angeles, it's always nice out. In New York, it can be nice out or horrifying. You really have no idea what you're going to get on any given day.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
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Curvy models are becoming more and more vocal about the isolating nature of the term 'plus-size.' We are calling ourselves what we want to be called - women, with shapes that are our own.
Ashley Graham
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I want to stay where I am. I'm stoked to be a country artist.
Kelsea Ballerini
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Only a woman can tell you what it's like to be a woman in a society where men are in charge. When you have one demographic that controls the livelihood of minorities, then you're always going to have abuses of power. So this goes way beyond Hollywood.
Jessica Chastain
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Yes, I would definitely let the 'Queer Eye' - I mean, cameras - follow me for my marriage.
Karamo Brown
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Fiction, for me, is sort of a protracted way of saying all the things I wished I said the night before.
Christopher Buckley
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My morning routine is quite common: I have breakfast at home while reading the newspaper, I take a shower, get dressed, a spray of cologne, and I am ready to go!
Domenico Dolce
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Honestly, I don't focus on what my writing is called. I don't mean to sound artsy and pretentious, I just really can't think of things in that way. For me, the point is telling a story that keeps people up past bedtime, while hopefully exploring ideas that resonate.
Marcus Sakey
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I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'
Peter Diamandis
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I was born in a territory called Biran, in the eastern region of Cuba. It's known by that name, although it has never appeared on a map.
Fidel Castro
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You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.
David Markson
