Alan Dundes Quotes
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
Damien Hirst -
In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
Ted Yoho -
Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
Naomi Klein -
We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
Ramez Naam -
We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
Larry Wall -
I am not in the business of suppressing books.
Salman Rushdie
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
T-Pain -
I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
Victor Cruz -
Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
Valentina Tereshkova -
I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
Vance Joy -
I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
Iggy Azalea -
I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
Gavin Andresen
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My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
Abby Wambach -
I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
Laura Wilkinson -
I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
Imogen Cunningham -
My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
Calvin Johnson -
I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
Laura San Giacomo -
All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
Harold Bloom
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I try to only go out twice a week. More than that would leave me feeling pretty run down.
Hannah Bronfman -
Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
Eckhart Tolle -
I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens.
Donald Miller -
If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.
C. S. Lewis -
It is a hard matter for a man to lie all over, nature having provided king's evidence in almost every member. The hand will sometimes act as a vane, to show which way the wind blows, even when every feature is set the other way; the knees smite together and sound the alarm of fear under a fierce countenance; the legs shake with anger when all above us calm.
Washington Allston -
Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.
Alan Dundes