V. S. Pritchett Quotes
The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.
V. S. Pritchett
Quotes to Explore
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More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
Harlan Coben
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Obviously, exercise is an important part of my life, and I think taking care of yourself is an important part of every individual's health care.
Aaron Schock
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I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.
Madhur Bhandarkar
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I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.
J. Courtney Sullivan
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
Ingrid Bergman
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I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.
Oprah Winfrey
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
E. O. Wilson
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
Damian Lewis
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Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.
Taylor Momsen
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There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'
Nathan Lane
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We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.
Ed Markey
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While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
S. Jay Olshansky
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I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.
Rachel Maddow
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I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.
Ina May Gaskin
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
Barbara Sher
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
G. Gordon Liddy
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I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.
Tatum O'Neal
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I am quite fortunate, because I can still be quite incognito. If you go out looking for attention, then you'll attract it, but if you're just getting on with your life, particularly in London where everyone is engrossed in what they're doing, you can keep a measure of anonymity.
Felicity Jones
