Denis Donoghue Quotes
Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe.Denis Donoghue
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If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.
Earl Warren -
I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
Olga Kurylenko -
You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
Parker Posey -
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
Nas -
There were so many groups that I had in college, but I was always the solo singer. But what made it so unusual back in the day was that I was a black girl playing with all these white musicians, and I was also singing rock music on top of it.
Natalie Cole
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When incomes and bonuses decrease, revenues falter, and businesses stumble, it's more important than ever to give - not necessarily more, but in a way that matters more. When incomes are down and wallets are stretched, the effectiveness of our giving is what really counts.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen -
Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
Zara Phillips -
All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
Ulrich Beck -
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
B. H. Liddell Hart -
My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
Victoria Woodhull -
The area we define as what Quora's good at is long-form text that's useful over time, and where you care about who wrote the text. Not that you need to be friends with them, just that they're someone trustworthy.
Adam D'Angelo
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Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
Larry Gagosian -
Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
Sally Ride -
Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television.
Tamara Tunie -
Wearers of rings and chains!Pray do not take the pains To set me right.In vain my faults ye quote;I write as others wrote On Sunium’s hight.
Walter Savage Landor -
I have a feeling that you despise your body and that you only value art, you only value your argent needs, but eating and sleeping aren’t enough. You believe that your appearance is your enemy, and the only friend you have is music. Why look just in the mirror, look at your reflection, you’ll never find a better friend that yourself.
Elfriede Jelinek -
I like the fact that I'm from the South and that I have this rich history behind me. I come from a family of storytellers. They can't just tell you how someone went to the store. They have to tell you who they saw, what they were wearing, what they said, what they had in their grocery cart.
Kimberly Willis Holt
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Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.
Amanda Peet -
Yesterday they called it coincidence. Today it's synchronicity. Tomorrow they'll call it skill.
Antero Alli -
He gets sex, she gets sex; if that is considered unequal, no wonder men are afraid of commitment.
Warren Farrell -
I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart Simpson character who infects so much of our literature and film and TV stuff nowadays, these know-it-all kids who seem to understand the hypocrisy of the adult world so thoroughly and can talk about it with such articulateness. That's bunk.
David Small -
Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe.
Denis Donoghue