Anne Lamott Quotes

So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.

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• It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Fun
  • Funny

• You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Country
  • Genius
  • Push

• I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Drummer
  • Set
  • Bedroom

• If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Work
  • Home
  • Travel

• The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Rose

• I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Play
  • Missing
  • Airplane

• We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Live
  • Mystery
  • Busy

• Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Game

• I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Pretty

• I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.

  

  Jack Williamson
  • Future
  • Universe
  • Curiosity

• The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Criticism
  • Old
  • Tradition

• Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Lord
  • Created
  • Sins

• I need this wild life, this freedom.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • WIld

• I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.

  

  Randy Weber
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Family

• Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Time
  • Good
  • Country

• Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Life
  • Effort
  • Thought

• Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Up
  • You
  • Start

• The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Best
  • Choose
  • Heroes

• Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter of unedited free-association.

  

  Albert Murray
  • Free

• I realize how much my life lines up with artists like Marvin Gaye and Sam Cooke. My sound comes from church, but the stories come from actual personal experience, being out there in the streets living life.

  

  BJ the Chicago Kid
  • Life
  • Up
  • Experience

• I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • Family
  • Service

• My family and friends were definitely the key to my recovery. One thing that I do suggest is that anyone dealing with a life-threatening illness like cancer choose a point person for people to call to find out how you are doing - a sister, brother, mother, father, daughter, son, or close friend.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• Never give up, trust your instincts!

  

  Falco
  • Up
  • Trust

• So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.

  

  Anne Lamott
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