Anais Nin Quotes
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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I'm dying, and I'm having fun.
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The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
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I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.
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The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
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My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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I like tough relationships. I think relationships with conflict are good for you - you learn. But you can't listen too much. I have a strong point of view, and it's important that I fight for my ideas.
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I'm still standing up there tall and strong every night that I perform.
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Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whites and a left-wing construct, one begins to understand why the election of a black president has had no impact on most blacks or on the left.
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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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Being an Australian that's been No. 1 in the world back home playing in Australia, that's a pretty cool moment to have.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
