James A. Baldwin Quotes
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
Walter Kirn -
Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
Garry Moore -
I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
Abby Wambach -
If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
Ted Shackelford -
A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
Jack Nicklaus -
I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
Karen Bender
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
Bayard Taylor -
The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
Ed Begley, Jr. -
Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.
Iain Duncan Smith -
If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
Samuel Beckett -
The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.
Patrice Motsepe -
A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
Kate Grenville
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
Iain McGilchrist -
I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
Quentin Blake -
I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
Carlos Fuentes -
I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
Sam Kinison -
A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
Victor Hugo -
The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
Samuel P. Huntington
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If I should get selected into the Hall of Fame, I'd be able to say 'thank you' to all the legends that are in the Hall of Fame. And also say thank you to my teammates, and also to all the fans. It's going to be like a dream come true.
Jerry Rice -
When I came to Chicago, I didn't even know what improvisation meant, as far as pertaining to comedy. I knew about Second City, but I didn't know what the word 'improvisation' meant.
Matt Besser -
Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.
Oswald Chambers -
It's been the most creatively liberating thing I've ever done and so I'm bringing some of that mad enthusiasm to Marvel for the next couple of years as they let me loose on some Marvel Universe titles you'll be hearing about soon.
Mark Millar -
When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.
Jesse Jackson -
People can cry much easier than they can change.
James A. Baldwin