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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Dominic Sherwood would always tell me a joke right before it was my take or my close up. He'd say a funny joke, and I couldn't stop laughing, even after they said, 'Action.'
Emeraude Toubia
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Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
Carol Burnett
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Biographers search for traces, for evidence of activity, for signs of movement, for letters, for diaries, for photographs.
Claire Tomalin
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How can you tell a story with one frame that, by its simplicity, manages to tell a story, a gag that evokes an emotion in you? That became my motto throughout all my life. Simplicity.
Pierre Coffin
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I gave you prophecy on my first joint, and y'all lamed out
Didn't really appreciate it, 'til the second one came out
Jay-Z
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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
