James A. Baldwin Quotes
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I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.
Ralph Lauren -
At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
K. A. Applegate -
If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
Edan Lepucki -
I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.
Hari Kondabolu -
A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
Sam Graves
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Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
Fannie Flagg -
I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
Harold Washington -
I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
Mahesh Babu -
I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
Pankaj Mishra -
I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
Dakota Fanning -
Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.
Kate Bush
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I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.
Carl Paladino -
When you're filming, it's very different from what you see on screen.
Maisie Williams -
I love Chicago. I wouldn't be where I am now, and I certainly wouldn't have the confidence that I hope that I project, if I'd not lived in Chicago.
Tamron Hall -
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
Rabindranath Tagore -
I have heard firsthand from several small business owners about their struggle to borrow and their fear of taking on additional debt.
Sam Graves -
I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
Imelda Marcos
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Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose. There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself, you know, have fun, take chances. There's no bounds.
Jewel Kilcher -
Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.
John McCain -
When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you're writing for is smarter than you. You can't write if you don't think they're on your side, because then you start to yell at them or preach down to them.
Tony Kushner -
A miracle is a shift in perception. The moment that we choose to perceive our life with love, we can create miraculous change.
Gabrielle Bernstein -
I knew I shouldn't be eating fried chips, but I'm just not a fan of baked chips, as much as I tried them.
Keith Belling -
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
James A. Baldwin