Patrick O'Brian Quotes
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
Walter Pater -
A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
Naomi Judd -
My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.
Valerie June -
The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
Samuel P. Huntington -
I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years in credit now. I can't get my head around the fact that I am older than he was - ever.
Ian Hislop -
I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
Laura Mvula
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My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.
Waris Ahluwalia -
I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.
Macaulay Culkin -
Jim played - he had a great stretch in the middle of the round there, and Chad made that long putt on 16. Almost got that match. We ended up losing, but we almost won it, too.
Hal Sutton -
When I learned to play music, I was listening to blues music. And all the blues music I liked was super simple and stripped down. And then all the hip hop I liked was super simple and stripped down and we always heard that connection.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys -
I've always been multi-cultural myself. I'm not black and I'm not white and I'm not pink and I'm not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.
Eartha Kitt -
Wishy-washy equivocations - and not just on abortion, but on immigration, on civil rights, on income inequality - weaken all of us.
Laura Moser
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Mao Zedong -
It's true the Iraqis misbehaved and had no credibility but that doesn't necessarily mean that they were in the wrong.
Hans Blix -
She told him she made a rule of never marrying bankers. The next day he sent flowers, and a note saying that he’d relinquished his profession.
Clive Barker -
We plucked down all His altars, left not oneSave where, perchance (and ah, the joy was fleet),We laid our garlands in the sunAt the white Sea-born's feet.
Alfred Noyes -
It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up.
Fred Wilson -
I'm actually in a tradition of classicists with a big public face who like sounding off.
Mary Beard
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In the U.K., a lot of writers won't show up to support activist issues because they figure they're already repairing the world. I don't want to be one of those people.
Jim Crace -
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Horace -
If a person is right for a role, I don't care where they got their training.
Rachel Hoffman -
HMS Surprise (1973)
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