Joan Didion Quotes

My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving butter cookies extruded from a metal press and pastel bonbons ordered from See's.

Joan Didion

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 5, 1934

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I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.

Jeff Hawkins

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I think success is finding happiness! Everyone certainly has different goals in life, and things that are important to them, and also things that are not important to them.

Meryl Davis

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It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.

Stephen Lewis

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I got really frustrated in jail, and I was like, 'Man, I love what I've done, and I love the mark I've made on rock n' roll history'... and I sat there, and I got really depressed, thinking, 'I gotta make a move... do something fresh and new.'

Tommy Lee

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I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring.

Tony Curtis

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I competed with Yahoo for 15-1/2 years, and the one thing I tried to do over the years was desperately try to get a deal with them.

Ross Levinsohn

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Dad was an outstanding leader. He'd bring in top thinkers from a wide array of fields - how to fix the Detroit schools, for example. I watched him in these meetings. He listened and probed.

Mitt Romney

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Africa offers the highest return on investment in the world.

Mo Ibrahim

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If we are to meet the growing electricity demand in the United States without significantly increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, we must maintain a diverse supply of electricity, and nuclear power must be part of that mix.

Judy Biggert

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I'm all over the place with what I listen to.

Joshua Ostrander

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The temple of art is built in words.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

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Personally, I feel that a company which looks at problems of other companies and learns from their mistakes is a successful one.

Dilip Shanghvi

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