Lydia Davis Quotes
I follow my interests pretty - I don't like the word 'intuitively.' I follow them in a kind of natural way, without questioning them too much.Lydia Davis
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
Barbra Streisand -
I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
Tawni O'Dell -
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
Dag Hammarskjold -
Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
Pankaj Mishra -
In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'
Rand Paul -
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
Samuel Butler
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
J. Philippe Rushton -
I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
Feist -
There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.
Karan Mahajan -
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
Samuel Johnson -
What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
Ted Cruz -
In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever.
Vince Staples -
Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.
Frances Beinecke -
Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
Eckhart Tolle -
Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
Carlos Slim -
Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko -
People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
Adam Pally
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Anderson [Cooper], I guess the question I have is why can't CNN cover Obamacare, and ISIS, and radical Islamic terrorism?
Anderson Cooper -
No matter what you have gone through in your youth, it is about who you choose to be in life. You can define your own destiny. You can be stronger than a very difficult past and overcome it.
Angelina Jolie -
I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?
Paige Bradley -
It is no longer important for me to be seen in every frame.
Ram Charan -
I've grown up on TV, and there were some phases that weren't pretty.
Kaley Cuoco -
I follow my interests pretty - I don't like the word 'intuitively.' I follow them in a kind of natural way, without questioning them too much.
Lydia Davis