Lucille Clifton Quotes
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When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.
Patrick Marber -
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
Tecumseh -
People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
Madchen Amick -
The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
Candace Kita -
All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'
Caitlin Doughty -
I think I have lived in every part of L.A. except downtown. Everywhere from Topanga Canyon to Toluca Lake.
Valerie Azlynn
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
Oksana Baiul -
Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
Patrick Macnee -
I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
Maika Monroe -
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
Sallust -
The movie business is a big gamble.
Jackie Chan -
The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
Dan Kaminsky
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I tend to stay with the panic. I embrace the panic.
Larry David -
Life at best is bittersweet.
Jack Kirby -
That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.
Ed Bradley -
If I could go the ballpark and play the game for three hours and then go home? It would be awesome. But that's not the case.
Vernon Wells -
I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.
Queen Latifah -
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
Abigail Adams
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The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosperity is a divine blessing. Poverty crushes the spirit as well as the body, and its alleviation is a sacred task. Work is a noble calling.
Jonathan Sacks -
It is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor.
John Stuart Mill -
Satan tries to counterfeit the work of God, and by doing this, he may deceive many. To make us lose hope, feel miserable like himself, and believe that we are beyond forgiveness, Satan might even misuse words from the scriptures that emphasize the justice of God in order to imply that there is no mercy.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf -
Every time I try to tell people things about my career, I wonder if that's the truth or something I'm fantasizing about.
Johnny Mathis -
No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.
Pablo Picasso -
Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.
Lucille Clifton