James A. Baldwin Quotes
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.James A. Baldwin
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I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I disagree. You need to write a lot in order to figure out what's good and what's crap.
Nathaniel Rich -
I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
Beau Willimon -
I've always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward, to open you up to new worlds.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
Vince Lombardi -
No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
Kate Beckinsale -
We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
Wayne Coyne
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
I. King Jordan -
I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.
Gabriel Basso -
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.
Candace Bushnell -
Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.
Natalie Dormer -
Some people try to cyber bully me; they try to get to me with words, but that doesn't really work.
Paris Jackson
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I started modelling quite late, at 20. In this industry, girls start when they're barely even 14 or 15.
Irina Shayk -
I'm very blessed that I get to dabble in both music and movies, and as long as people are willing to accept me in both roles, I'll be there.
Mandy Moore -
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Walt Whitman -
My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut.
Malin Akerman -
When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band.
Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot -
I've had people in the family, male and female, impacted by heart disease. But people can prevent it.
Laila Ali
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It sounds like they’re saying passive life is good, he thought. But there is no such thing as passive life. That’s a contradiction.
Philip K. Dick -
This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions; these are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion.
William Shakespeare -
The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Teachers teach and students educate. Students are the only true educators. Historically, every other method of education has failed. Education occurs when students get excited about learning and apply themselves; students do this when they experience great teachers.
Oliver DeMille -
It's important to work slowly and intelligently in your strength work before revving up the intensity. Start with deep diaphragmatic breathing to reengage and reconnect with your abdominals.
Anna Kaiser -
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
James A. Baldwin