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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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've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.
Gary Allan
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Im looking forward to the World Cup because I believe Wayne Rooney could be one of the major finds in world football.
Bobby Charlton
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
Carl Bernstein
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After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine; a gourmet, repressing his burp, criticizes the food in the same magazine; a gourmand belches happily and tells everybody where he ate; a glutton empraces the white porcelain alter, or more plainly, he barfs.
William Lewis Safir
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Dualistic doctrines that regard mind and body as separate entities do not provide much enlightenment on the nature of the disembodied mental state or on how an immaterial mind and bodily events act on each other.
Albert Bandura
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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
