Lydia Millet Quotes
When it comes to American Indians, mainstream America suffers from willful blindness.
Lydia Millet
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
Laura San Giacomo
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I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
Jack Nicholson
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I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.
Jack Ma
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio.
Hans Frank
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
Malcolm Turnbull
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
Ziad Doueiri
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
Adam McKay
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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
Vin Diesel
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
Quincy Jones
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
Walker Percy
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
Samuel Johnson
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NoH8 on the Hill, NoH8 anywhere. No American, regardless of who they love, should be denied equal protection under the law. History is on our side and our march towards justice will prevail.
Xavier Becerra
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It didn’t pay very much, but it enabled me to get other jobs doing art criticism, which I didn’t want to do very much, but as so often when you exhibit reluctance to do something, people think you must be very good at it. If I had set out to be an art critic, I might never have succeeded.
John Ashbery
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It's absolutely ugly, but unfortunately quite true of the world today; the more money you make, the more people tend to listen to you. If you're not quoted in Fortune or Forbes or the Wall Street Journal, then nobody listens. If you say something that makes a lot of money, whether what you said is true or not, people listen.
Jef Raskin
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No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.
Marianne Williamson
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The market is now looking for some further rate hikes in the U.S. and that is going to keep the dollar supported in the near-term.
Ian Stannard
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When it comes to American Indians, mainstream America suffers from willful blindness.
Lydia Millet
