Augusten Burroughs Quotes
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I voted for Barack Obama.
LaDainian Tomlinson -
I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.
Pat Robertson -
Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.
Yoshihiko Noda -
I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
Sadie Jones -
I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
Mal Peet -
My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
Gary Hume
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
Idris Elba -
When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
Karl Marlantes -
I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
Taylor Lautner -
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso -
In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
Tadao Ando -
I never said most of the things I said.
Yogi Berra
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
Tamra Davis -
It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
Ice Cube -
I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.
Patricia Millett -
The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
Sally Mann -
My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.
Waka Flocka Flame -
Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
Wayne Dyer
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I try to be funny and not ignorant.
Kevin Hart -
The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
Fiona Apple -
Lots of small business men have been contacting me to say they wish they had the nerve to say what I said.
David A. Siegel -
Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.
Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin -
Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.
Augusten Burroughs