Agnes Bruckner Quotes

I like to sleep a lot. I mean I really like to sleep.

Agnes Bruckner

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• The very qualities that make it harder for women to get elected - not being part of the old boy's network - gives them the advantage of having fresh, and yes, clean faces.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Boy
  • Old

• Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Power
  • Simple

• When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Purpose
  • Mad
  • Partner

• I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Thinking
  • Myself
  • Learn

• What I support is moving Medicaid to block grants so that the states can drive that process.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Support
  • Moving
  • Process

• Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Singing

• The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Best
  • Gift
  • Collage

• Death always seems to be around me.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Death
  • Me
  • Always

• The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Great
  • Care
  • Out

• I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Watch
  • Him
  • Watched

• Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Man
  • Taken
  • Attitude

• My dad died when he was 60. I was only 17 and I think, psychologically, that had a huge impact on me, probably more than I realised.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • Dad
  • Impact
  • Died

• I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • First
  • Read

• I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Look
  • Jump
  • Step

• Zef is like dirt, it's like scum. There was no zef movement before we came along.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Like
  • Movement
  • Dirt

• Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.

  

  Larry Page
  • Always
  • Sense
  • Where

• Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Different
  • Book
  • You

• The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • My Life

• If we are unable to unify the past, present, and future of the sentence, then we are similarly unable to unify the past, present, and future of our own biographical experience or psychic life.

  

  Fredric Jameson
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Future

• If I'm talking to a guy who's straight and cute and single, I'm like, 'Are you a unicorn?'

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Guy
  • Single
  • Cute

• As for the system of the Commune, which makes it impossible for a man to rise or fall, it is merely the old caste system revived; if it could be put into force, all industry would be disheartened, emulation would cease, and mankind would go to sleep.

  

  William Winwood Reade
  • Men
  • Fall
  • Sleep

• I like to sleep a lot. I mean I really like to sleep.

  

  Agnes Bruckner
  • Sleep