Elayne Boosler Quotes
Turkeys know their names, come when you call, and are totally affectionate. They're better than teenagers.
Elayne Boosler
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
Larry Niven
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I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.
Wayne Newton
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When I was shooting in Pollachi, I had tried out a lot of local food, most of them I don't remember the names of.
Hansika Motwani
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I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.
James Brown
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My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.
Diana Ross
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Never kiss in public, but at home I am affectionate.
Donald Glover
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And now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment; it is transient as all moments are; it is past, like every moment in the next moment. And yet it is decisive, and filled with the eternal. Such a moment ought to have a distinctive name; let us call it the Fullness of Time.
Zadie Smith
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One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.
W. C. Fields
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The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a sh*t.
Banksy
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Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism as opposed to the dot-age of the university.'
W. W. Rouse Ball
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Hands-on experience at the critical time, not systematic knowledge, is what counts in the making of a naturalist. Better to be an untutored savage for a while, not to know the names or anatomical detail. Better to spend stretches of time just searching and dreaming.
E. O. Wilson
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You think you know me just because you know my name, think you've seen me 'cause you've seen every line on my face.
Jon Bon Jovi
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I just do as many songs as I can and then I put it together when I get sort of in the middle, maybe 30 songs, that's when I start really thinking about the name of the cd and what direction all the songs are going, that kind of stuff. But I don't ever want to corner myself, I just want to be able to express whatever I can express in songs and just pick after that.
Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
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We have a kind of pact. If anything ever bothers us, we don't hold it in for one second. From the first day we met, Jen would just drag me out and start telling me stories about her relationships.
Courteney Cox
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It's interesting how people who were once fairly radical can become, later in life, kind of conservative, and not just in terms of politics - how, if you're an artist, you can start out being somewhat avant-garde and then end up doing landscapes.
Richard Prince
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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
Bernard Berenson
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Turkeys know their names, come when you call, and are totally affectionate. They're better than teenagers.
Elayne Boosler
