Rufus Wainwright Quotes

When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love.

Rufus Wainwright

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Every Republican president starting with Lincoln - and for almost 100 years thereafter - generally supported tariffs, while Democrats tended to promote free trade.

Robert Lighthizer

FreePresidentRepublican100 Years

It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with a dog-eared, text-heavy paperback, immersed in the statistics of crime and punishment and lunacy, completely alone with the narrative of human depravity.

Russell Smith

AloneGreatLookStatisticsI Can

Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.

Mary MacLane

TruthMyselfI AmBookNeverNames

Can one truly be passionate about something if they are not committed to it?

Monica Johnson

PassionateSomethingCommittedAbout

Montanans elected me to the Senate to do away with shady backroom deals and to make government work better.

Jon Tester

WorkGovernmentMeBetterShady

Russia has to have a technology company of global meaning sooner or later. We should take the depth of technical culture we have here and make it available worldwide.

Arkady Volozh

TechnologyCultureMeaningCompany

I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write.

Atul Gawande

I AmBornNeverWriteBeingStill

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Winston Churchill

DemocracyPrisonPersonTestNothing

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

TogetherYouWillForeverSuffer

I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions.

Prince Harry

CompleteBreakdownCloseBeenVery

I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry.

Suzan-Lori Parks

LovePoetryFictionAnythingGet

Going through college a Red Sox fan and knowing the history behind everything that was going on back in the '80s and finally getting a chance to win a World Series for this great city and bringing it back after 86 years, it was truly special, and it's one of the highlights that I'll remember for a long time.

Tim Wakefield

HistoryGreatTimeRedCityCollege

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