Alice McDermott Quotes
For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile.
Alice McDermott
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I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?
Wale
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
Yogi Berra
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason
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I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
Jack Canfield
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
Caitlin Moran
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
Victoria Osteen
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
Laura Linney
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'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
Mara Wilson
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
Karl Marx
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
Jackie Cooper
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
Ted Chiang
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
Maeve Binchy
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Sometimes I make more money in a weekend than my grandpa made in a year.
Diplo
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Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.
C. S. Lewis
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I think any time you bring those guys in, one with a lot of playoff experience, with rings - those guys won - guys in the locker room gravitate towards those guys. Those guys have been there, so there's a lot that they can teach the guys.
Calvin Johnson
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I think you're always trying to challenge yourself to do new things and not repeat yourself.
David Hornsby
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For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile.
Alice McDermott
