Liz Phair Quotes
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
Quintilian -
I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.
Rachel Brosnahan -
When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
Patrick Swayze -
I don't get angry very often, but there have been times when I have been frustrated with myself, maybe after playing a bad shot, after getting out, I have done some damage to some equipment of mine. Once or twice in the course of 20 years – I think you can allow me that at least.
Rahul Dravid -
I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.
Landon Donovan -
First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
Jack L. Chalker
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
Namie Amuro -
It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.
Wayne Gretzky -
I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
Farrah Fawcett -
Metaphysics is a science.
Gabriel Marcel -
For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty? What does it mean to be insane - crazy?
Ted Dekker -
Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
J. C. Watts
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It would be nice to be a bit autonomous again, to enjoy something a bit quiet.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
In drama school, I entered a singing competition, which I ended up winning, which was great.
Taron Egerton -
Los Angeles is a good city in which to be a reporter. Always entertaining, always an incubator.
Dana Goodyear -
It had to be a book that held my attention and kept me wanting to read it; when my husband finished 'The Road', I started it straight away and didn't put it down until I finished - it was such an achievement and relief to know that I could read, comprehend and, most importantly, enjoy a book!
Rachel Tucker -
When I was starting out, I thought about how the Internet is global and that we should have a global name, a name that's interesting. At that time, the best name was Yahoo! Suddenly I thought, 'Alibaba is a good name.'
Jack Ma -
The modern video games kind of - they're too three dimensional.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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You have to have a ton of passion for what you're doing because being an entrepreneur is probably twice as hard as you think it's going to be. The good news is that it's probably twice as much fun when it's going well.
Keith Belling -
Sometimes my scripts get so dissolved, and they're so different from when I wrote them originally, that I find it hard to find what I wrote in it.
Ben Wheatley -
Oh for a fleet that could look the proudest power in Europe in the face, on this our rightful Western Ocean! But alas, it must be left to posterity — at the age of 50 I can't expect to view it unless from above.
Edward Rutledge -
YouTube is, like, the new reality television.
Connor Franta -
When I made my final reckoning with the decision not to have kids, I also decided that I would use at least some of my extra time to better the lives of kids who are already here.
Meghan Daum -
I'm known for being annoyingly gender-focused. It's always been my platform.
Liz Phair