Nicholson Baker Quotes
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Of course I get hurt.
Jackie Chan -
Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
Rafael dos Anjos -
People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
D. A. Pennebaker -
You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
M.I.A. -
When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism.
Abraham Lincoln -
Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.
Lajos Kossuth
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter Bagehot -
I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
Iman -
If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!
Kajol -
I certainly do not support excluding faith from public life.
Safak Pavey -
I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
Said Sayrafiezadeh -
To shake off the maddening and wearying limitations of time and space and natural law-to be linked with the vast outside-to come close to the nighted and abysmal secrets of the infinite and the ultimate-surely such a thing was worth the risk of one’s life, soul, and sanity!
H. P. Lovecraft
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The body is never more alive than when it is dead; but it is alive in its units, and dead in its totality; alive as a congeries, dead as an organism.
Annie Besant -
Nichts ist höher schätzen als der Werth des Tages.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Wine is good, but water is preferable at table.
Leonardo da Vinci -
I'm just an actor.
Benicio Del Toro -
My inspirations come from everywhere. It's important to look at everything and anything. I think what I create is serious fashion, but I don't want to keep my focus on that. You have to look at a lot of different things. I mean, people are always surprised when they find out that my favorite show is 'RuPaul's Drag Race.'
Jason Wu -
I know that Cena has a lot of detractors, but I'm very proud of him. He's a good hero.
Bret Hart
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The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.
Vicente Fox -
Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers.
Ian Hacking -
I am extremely interested in how people negotiate catastrophe, not because I'm morbidly interested in it but because I'm interested in the secret of resilience; that's what I'm always exploring in the stories and the novels.
Janette Turner Hospital -
I've always thought of myself as shy.
Nicholson Baker