Lee Siegel Quotes
A single week of Oprah takes you from bondage to all the violent terrors of life, to escape through vicarious encounters with celebrity, to visions of charity and hope, to hard resolve, to redemption and moral renovation.Lee Siegel
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
Barbara Smith -
Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
Manoj Bhargava -
I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
Cameron Diaz -
I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
Natalie Cole -
You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
Malcolm X
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
Walter Cronkite -
I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
Adam Clayton U2 -
A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I actually don't think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisine was always about discipline, about ingredient, about creativity, but also about simple. I see America as very similar in these rights.
Daniel Boulud -
I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
Kari Matchett -
Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.
Gale Sayers
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
Barbara Kruger -
Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams.
Nathan Myhrvold -
More is asked of you on stage. It's no way to make a living. But it's like a bullfight. You find out who can do it and who can't.
D. B. Sweeney -
It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
Ted Hughes -
I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.
Oscar Levant -
Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
Caio Fonseca
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I only have two things in my life, my family and work. If there's any time left over, then I play sports.
Mark Zandi -
Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could be convinced of that. But there are good people.
Jan Karon -
There is no corner of life where art is not needed. There is no corner of art where life is not needed.
Charlie Peacock -
As soon as I came to L.A., things immediately shifted for me. I was now actually here with the people who were making the decisions; I wasn't out in New York sending in tapes to L.A.
Chadwick Boseman -
Many times drugs and alcohol - there's a technical term that they're called, emotional suppressants - are the only things that can help a person survive and get through and be able to deal with their pain.
Axl Rose Guns N' Roses -
A single week of Oprah takes you from bondage to all the violent terrors of life, to escape through vicarious encounters with celebrity, to visions of charity and hope, to hard resolve, to redemption and moral renovation.
Lee Siegel