David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
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I know one gay ex-Mormon who is a talented, self-destructive alcoholic. Whenever he is drunk and going on a tear, we are back to the Mormon Church and his being thrown out of the Mormon Church and growing up with this sense of being evil.
Andrew Solomon
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Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we've ever been, at every stage along the way, and a chaos of everything good and rotten. And we have to carry this weight all alone, through each day that we live. We try to be as nice as we can to the people we love, but we alone support the weight of ourselves.
Banana Yoshimoto
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A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.
C. V. Wedgwood
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Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.
E. F. Schumacher
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Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it
Lyman Beecher
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By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant knowing how to keep silent, knowing that there are times when one should say nothing.
Octavio Paz
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The ultimate purpose of economics, of course, is to understand and promote the enhancement of well-being.
Ben Bernanke
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You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire.
Peter Gabriel
Genesis
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I've come to believe that everything worth achieving is beyond one's capacity - or seems so at first. The thing is to persist, not back off, fight your fight, pay your dues, and carry on. Effort is all; continue and you may get there despite everything.
Elia Kazan
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When I was coming up through the ranks, not that many people carried a lot money of money on them. This was before checks and credit cards.
Doyle Brunson
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I still subscribe to the minority view that all horses are offensive weapons and not to be trusted a yard.
Mary Margaret ('Mollie') Kaye
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You don't really know how beautiful a girl is, until you meet her, all her beauty is in her personality.
Zac Efron
