Lynda Barry Quotes
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The kinds of things I like with crystals are the really beautiful costume jewelry, vintage pieces, and they usually have that diamond shape.
Zoe Kravitz -
Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.
Sam Kean -
I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
Imogen Cunningham -
African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner -
A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
Barack Obama -
Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?
Rabbit Maranville -
I worked my way up in the private sector and implemented Georgia's tough voter ID law.
Karen Handel -
There's the assumption being made by the national security advisers to the Obama administration that the North Korean leadership is not suicidal, that they know they will be obliterated if they attacked the United States. But I would point that everything in South Korea and Japan is well within range of what they might want to do.
Oliver North -
I decided to be a part of 'Bajrangi'... because I felt that it tells a very relevant story.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.
Jacky Ickx -
Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.
Salman Rushdie
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Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.
Ted Nugent -
But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
Sally Ride -
I don't want to die thinking I've only done one thing in my life.
Maggie Cheung -
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Language is often changed by writers. We speak English today because Chaucer chose to write in the language of the common people, rather than the Latin or French used by those who were educated. James Joyce had an almost equally profound effect on language when he wrote about the inner self, rather than the outer self.
Madeleine L'Engle -
There is no effective difference between guessing a variable that is not random, but for which information is partial or deficient (...), and a random one (...). In this sense, guessing (what I don't know, but what someone else may know) and predicting (what has not taken place yet) are the same thing.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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'Sir Tristano spoke: 'Stop! You are taking the great green pearl!''Naturally!' said the voice from a point close behind. 'That is the whole point of robbery: to acquire the victim’s valuables!'
Jack Vance -
I'm aware of my body.
Joanna Lumley -
The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.
Joe Biden -
One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.
Ernest Hemingway -
Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
Thomas Sowell -
I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.
Lynda Barry