Georges Perec Quotes
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
Saint Ambrose
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As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
Ralph Bakshi
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Like a lot of people, I'm very, very concerned about Senator Clinton's record. I'm very, very concerned about where her positions were in the 1990s, when we had some of the most disgusting legislation in terms of our criminal justice, really, in this country's history.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Back when I was a senior in high school in Haughton, LA, I had a chance to go to LSU. Everyone I grew up with adored LSU, including my mom. But I chose to come to Mississippi State because I wanted to start a new tradition instead of perpetuating an established one.
Dak Prescott
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I make work a bit like how you mix cocktails - with ingredients like budget, history and location.
Florentijn Hofman
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Later on when it became a routine it was not as exciting I'll admit that. The first three years were wonderful, the rest were just money making and having fun.
Larry Hagman
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I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher.
Karlie Kloss
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Gin the goodwife stintand the bairns hungerthe Duke can get his rentone year longer.
Basil Bunting
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The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;It rains, and the wind is never weary;The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,But at every gust the dead leaves fall,And the day is dark and dreary.
Rain
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I'm going, going, back, back, to Cali, Cali.
The Notorious B.I.G.
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Find me in the shadows, and pull the shades down until tomorrow.
Selena Gomez
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You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.
Harold Lloyd Jenkins
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I've always been a fan of Five For Fighting's song 'Superman.' It's like an anthem, and I love it.
Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
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Like Russell, I enjoy the fact that when I'm playing solo, if I want to do something completely spontaneous, I don't have to worry about how I'm going to cue the other musicians, or if it's something that's rehearsed.
Benny Green
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People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.
Daniel Pauly
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I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.
Jim Wallis
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I'm all about accessing our resources; I'm all about those jobs. But I want to make sure I'm not expensing one for the other.
Lisa Murkowski
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Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.
Marshall McLuhan
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I eat anything, especially sweets. Chocolate, cookies, and I love mint-chip ice cream.
Mary McCormack
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A lot of times, we look at people who have disabilities as, 'Oh, we can't invite these people here or there.' And I hate that, because it's inappropriate. It's so weird to me when people say they don't have friends who have disabilities.
Karamo Brown
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Richard Wright, an American novelist of the realist school, asks a famous unfathomable question in his best-known novel, Native Son. Who knows when some slight shock, he asks, disturbing the delicate balance between social order and thirsty aspiration, shall send the skyscrapers in our cities toppling?
Daniel Handler
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I used to tell my three younger siblings stories because that was my household chore, and I told long stories in installments because it was easier and more fun than making up a new story every night. I loved it.
Kerry Greenwood
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Question your tea spoons.
Georges Perec
