Nicholson Baker Quotes
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
Walter Isaacson -
On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.
Iman -
Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.
Mackenzie Davis -
I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
Rachel Platten -
I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
Nancy Lublin -
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Earl Warren
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What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.
Hanya Yanagihara -
I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
Caitlin Rose -
You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.
Sammy Sosa -
The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
Damon Albarn Blur -
You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
Hamza Yusuf -
I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
Warren Spector
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
Val Kilmer -
I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
J. J. Abrams -
What is important is to have values in life. What's important is how you are, not how you look.
Valeria Mazza -
I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
Queen Latifah -
When I exercise, I need to connect to myself and see how I'm feeling at the moment because my mood is constantly changing.
Kate Hudson -
Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
Flannery O'Connor -
The sea, unmated creature, tired and lone,Makes on its desolate sands eternal moan.
Frederick William Faber -
Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
Ernest Hemingway -
The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
You can register a political objection in a number of ways.
Nicholson Baker