David Plotz Quotes
So while the name Redskins is only a bit offensive, it’s extremely tacky and dated—like an old aunt who still talks about ‘colored people’ or limps her wrist to suggest someone’s gay.David Plotz
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
Patrick Swayze -
I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.
Kara Swisher -
It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
Vin Diesel -
When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
Orison Swett Marden -
I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
Daniel Craig -
Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
Katee Sackhoff
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
Oscar Niemeyer -
People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I want to empower and educate and inspire individuals who are giving to give in a way that is more meaningful. The more meaningful our giving is, the more giving we will do.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen -
I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
Ottessa Moshfegh -
Admiration is great, but there is a line not to cross.
Taissa Farmiga -
The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.
Warwick Davis
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You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.
Orison Swett Marden -
I work out all the time! I don't just sit around and eat burgers whenever I want. Oh, if I could I probably would, but I don't.
Padma Lakshmi -
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
E. L. Doctorow -
I live in a high-rise apartment building, so I just have two cats. They're both pound kitties. One of them, Dick, is an evil, foot-biting cat. When I write a tiger morph, I'm always imagining Dick.
K. A. Applegate -
I am inclined to agree with the Head Master of Eton that pæderastic passions among schoolboys 'do no harm'; further, I think them the only redeeming feature of sexual life at public schools.
Aleister Crowley -
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
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I stay away from things that I know break me out - I am weirdly allergic to mango and almonds. I take evening primrose and supplements that have EFA fatty acids in them to just balance out my hormones and skin, and I take a lot of vitamin C. I drink a lot of water, try to eat really organic, and try to eat things that benefit my skin.
Brittany Snow -
As a novelist, you have to pick your battles. You are tired. You have begun to experience the first ominous tinglings of carpal tunnel syndrome. You wake up in the middle of the night with both hands lying across your chest like a couple of plucked bird carcasses, dead of all sensation.
Lynn Coady -
I think that any of the places that's cut off from money, things come up, what the people have to rely on.
Dr. John -
People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.
Barbara Demick -
Sometimes the things that come out of my mouth are mortifying.
Natasha Lyonne -
So while the name Redskins is only a bit offensive, it’s extremely tacky and dated—like an old aunt who still talks about ‘colored people’ or limps her wrist to suggest someone’s gay.
David Plotz