Lorrie Moore Quotes
I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.
Lorrie Moore
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
Barnett Newman
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Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.
Madeleine Albright
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When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
Francesco Totti
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During the decade following the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA, the problem of translation - namely, how genetic information is used to synthesize proteins - was a central topic in molecular biology.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
Owen Hart
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
J. Cole
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All things considered, defending our borders by building a fence to keep out people is a necessity. There is no more humane alternative when it comes to protecting ourselves. We must act humanely, within the law, while honoring transparency, but with firm resolve.
Viktor Orban
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
Laura Marling
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I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.
C. J. Box
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
Rachel Boston
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
C. S. Lewis
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When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
Washed Out
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
Edmund White
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It's a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do - you're proud of it - and I like the effect that movies have on people. But the attention can also make me uncomfortable.
Kristen Stewart
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Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.
Saadi
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To believe in love and to make it the embodiment and sum of our understanding of existence has far–reaching, indeed revolutionary consequences for our image of God, for our self–understanding and for our life praxis, for ecclesial praxis and for our conduct in the world. Love, which is proven in mercy, can and must become the foundation of a new culture for our lives, the church, and for society.
Walter Kasper
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It's very important that people who are feeling the need to do something... get activated.
Maxine Waters
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I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.
Lorrie Moore