Andrew Sean Greer Quotes
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Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.
E. M. Forster -
People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is, 'Where have you been?' The second comment they make is always, 'Oh, you've grown up.'
Macaulay Culkin -
I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
Wendy Cope -
As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
Barack Obama -
Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
Patricia Polacco -
You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
Harry Browne
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
Ednita Nazario -
My second year of college, I started performing comedy at an open mic. It was good to do open mics with the kids. It's a good, safe spot to start, you know?
Hannibal Buress -
I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.
Ian McShane -
The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain.
Olympia Dukakis -
I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.
Rafael Palmeiro -
You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.
Jack Anderson -
What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.
Carlos Fuentes -
I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.
L. Neil Smith -
I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
Zoe Lister-Jones -
Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
Zygmunt Bauman -
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
Abraham Lincoln
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It's perfectly okay to fail. It sounds corny, but it truly is about the journey.
Urijah Christopher Faber -
We need to make sure that the things we are already working on turn out to do the things we believe they can do and creating value both for the world and ultimately for Google.
Astro Teller -
When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.
John Philpot Curran -
The result, the Walker Colt, was one of the most effective and deadly pieces of technology ever devised, one that would soon kill more men in combat than any sidearm since the Roman short sword.
S. C. Gwynne -
Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.
William Laud -
I'm not despairing of love at all.
Andrew Sean Greer