Steven Wright Quotes

I wear a hat on stage so that people won't be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I don't wear a hat, there's no way that the hat can be at that level by itself on the stage.

Steven Wright

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My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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I feel that Italy's a country that's constantly looking out and constantly following what's happening in other cultural centers. What is being written in America, what is being published in England, what is being published in France. It's a culture that's always wanting to absorb and inform itself of other works, other writers, etc., etc.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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I do believe the most important thing I can do now is to help young people understand the past and prepare for the future.

John C. Stennis

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Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.

Andrew Stanton

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We all would love the idea of people getting what's coming to them in books and in life, but sometimes the trajectory is a little more complicated than that.

Meg Wolitzer

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You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed.

John Major

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We live in a different media age, a different realm if you will. And whoever is going to aspire to the presidency is going to need to understand what that realm entails and how to navigate it.

Michael Avenatti

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Some people get in the way of change happening. Some people spend their whole careers thinking they can make a difference. Other people want to do as little as possible to get the day done.

Amy Poehler

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If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like.

Soichiro Honda

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The next big push in my life is trying to get poetry popular again.

Joshua Sasse

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Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

Brad Meltzer

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We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

William Griffith Wilson

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