Alice McDermott Quotes
No one looks at a baby and says, 'You are going to be a great novelist, and you really need to start writing now.' Something in us says: 'This is what I must do.'Alice McDermott
Quotes to Explore
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It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
Adam Braun -
The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
Adam McKay -
If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
Samuel Beckett -
My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
Ilie Nastase
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
Ted Koppel -
Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
Malcolm Wallop -
I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
Hamilton Jordan -
If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
Sam Altman -
As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.
Ted Cruz -
No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
Ziggy Marley
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This is my life... I mean, maybe I have Rs 100 crore in the bank, sitting comfortably. If that increases to Rs 10,000 crore, what difference does it make to me.
Kallam Anji Reddy -
Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
Jack Nicholson -
Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
Edmund Clarence Stedman -
My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny.
P. J. O'Rourke -
This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.
Dan Rather -
Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
Ogden Nash
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Politics has become the great spectator sport of the United States.
James Carville -
To me, 'Chopped' is a great platform for championing great causes.
Alex Guarnaschelli -
My fashion resolution for 2015 is to continue to be inspired by all of the great designers of the past and present while keeping true to my style and myself.
Bella Hadid -
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. Mencken -
I've never done anything deliberately; I just speak my mind, and that is what I consistently do and will always do in any way shape or form that I can.
John Joseph Lydon -
No one looks at a baby and says, 'You are going to be a great novelist, and you really need to start writing now.' Something in us says: 'This is what I must do.'
Alice McDermott