Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.
Rita Mae Brown
Recitation: by Male by Female
I'm always thinking about what a black lady would think about what I'm doing, just because I feel like they have such great taste, mostly because as black women, we've spent a lot of time downloading what a white male narrative is, so in my head, I'm like, 'If a black woman likes it, if she responds to it, then it's probably pretty damn great.'
Jessica Williams
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You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes.
John Hoeven
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On a bigger level, 9/11 was a crystallizing moment for my generation... the bubble popped. We were like, 'Whoa, this is what the real world is like; it's not all fun and games.'
Matt Gallagher
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
Simone Weil
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I wanted all my visits to be official. When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president. I found out years later that it did.
Louis Freeh
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Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.
Christopher Columbus
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A one-hundred-thousand-word novel might take a year or several years, and then you just come to 'The End' one day. But it takes hundreds of days to get to 'The End.' As a writer, you have to put in those hundreds of days.
Bob Mayer
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I'm not that interested in fashion... When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life.
Bruce Oldfield
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It's true that the atmosphere here is quite different from the one in France. People live and breathe football here, and that's what I like. Every footballer wants to play in the Premier League.
Anthony Martial
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I love to get on the road, but I also think arriving is such a thrill. Turning up at the train station in Mumbai, for example, to see people hanging off all the wonderful old carriages. It's extraordinary - everyone sitting with their chickens on their laps, moving forward but not going anywhere fast.
Anouska Hempel
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
Pearl Bailey
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Not only is it not remarkable to be a single woman, there's no stigma attached. You see more and more women choosing to be single as well as happenstance.
Pepper Schwartz
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