Lydia Millet Quotes
The summer after I got divorced, my children asked to sleep in my bed again. It would be the first time we'd shared a bed since they were infants.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
Jack White The White Stripes
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
Gary Shteyngart
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
Barbara Bush
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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
D. B. Sweeney
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
Laura Robson
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
Rachelle Lefevre
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
Manolo Blahnik
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
Adam Ferguson
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Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
Rafael Cruz
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
Vincent Cassel
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
Dakota Johnson
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I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.
C. S. Lewis
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
Ragnar Frisch
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
Orrin Hatch
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The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.
Alfred Bester
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Thanks to social media like Facebook, Twitter and Goodreads, I can easily reach out to so many people. Being a writer gives me the added bonus of a targeted audience: readers, who enjoy targeted 'prizes' for participation in fundraisers - books and other neat promo items.
Lori Foster
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. The more stupid the man, the larger his stock of adamantine assurances, the heavier his load of faith.
H. L. Mencken
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On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
Jean Racine
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We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ's steps, and let the world say what it likes.
J. C. Ryle
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The summer after I got divorced, my children asked to sleep in my bed again. It would be the first time we'd shared a bed since they were infants.
Lydia Millet