Lydia Millet Quotes
Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.
Lydia Millet
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
Garry Moore
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I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.
Taylor Swift
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
Gaby Hoffmann
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
Rafael dos Anjos
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
M. J. Rose
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The people I admire unreservedly are my parents. They are the real pioneers of Africa in many ways. They were born and raised in rural Africa during the colonial period. They are the ones who came to the U.S. long before I did.
Dambisa Moyo
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Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.
Natasha Little
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
Ed Gillespie
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Managers used to say, 'I have a gut feeling.' Do you know what a gut feeling is for a professional manager? It's a pattern that they recognize. But if your system can recognize that pattern, if it's not just a couple of managers who know that pattern, then the system's gut feeling can tell you which way to go. That's really liberating.
Safra A. Catz
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
Igor Stravinsky
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If the only ideas you had were your own, you'd be very limited.
Harold Ramis
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
Kate Bernheimer
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
Walter Lippmann
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I would love to work in America. I wouldn't love to live there, but I'd love to experience working there.
Daniel Radcliffe
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Especially where financial matters are concerned, when it comes to dissolving a marriage, any dissembling at all is strictly against the law - on penalty of perjury. You need to disclose fully and factually, which is precisely what the discovery process is all about.
Laura Wasser
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Marriage can be whatever you define it as. For example, I don't feel like I need a piece of paper that says I own her and she owns me. I think signing a piece of paper doesn't mean anything in the eyes of God or in the eyes of people. The thing is, if you are together and you love each other and are good to each other, make babies and all that, for all intents and purposes you are married.
Johnny Depp
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Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.
Lydia Millet
