Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
Venus Williams -
If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
Ira Glass -
No sensible author wants anything but praise.
A. A. Milne -
For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
Taylor Swift -
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Wayne Dyer
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
Queen Latifah -
I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
Iris DeMent -
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
Samuel Butler
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
Talulah Riley -
I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
Ed Weeks -
I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
Randy Harrison -
I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
Rachel Weisz -
I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
Aaron Eckhart -
Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
J. B. Priestley
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Where God guides He provides. He is not responsible for expenses not on His schedule. He does not foot the bill when we leave His itinerary.
Vance Havner -
The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.
Yoko Ono -
I like jokes, but Ray and I, we never did jokes. We weren't in that line of humor. We each contributed our own kind of observations. I'm glad to have people look at and laugh at and respect and get some creative juice out of what we did by observing.
Bob Elliott -
It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.
Sarah Orne Jewett -
Dance is definitely what I love doing much more than anything else.
Keri Russell -
If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?
Cormac McCarthy