Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

If my favorite, most comfortable place is by our fireplace in cold weather, expedient places are on an airplane, in a waiting room or even waiting in line; frequently these days, while on the phone having been 'put on hold.'

Joyce Carol Oates

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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

John Burroughs

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With 'The Soup,' obviously it has to be totally scripted out, and then, within that, I improvise punchlines and sometimes setups if I can't read the teleprompter properly.

Joel McHale

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As I've been teaching longer and longer, I realize I learn so much from the voices I'm naturally drawn to, the writers I love on an instinctive level - but I also learn so much from the writers that I have to work to grasp.

Tracy K. Smith

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It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.

Tom Lehrer

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Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

Rutherford B. Hayes

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I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.

Marty Feldman

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I went to North Carolina to play football.

Mickey Rivers

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I used to pride myself on the fact that I kept a house running and never burdened anybody.

Michael Learned

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What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?

Mitt Romney

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Neeraj Pandey is a very smart director.

Disha Patani

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The only thing I'm looking for in life is incredible passion and honest love, no matter what options are on the table. All I really operate on is the way I feel in my heart when it comes to love.

Aubrey O'Day

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For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.

Paul Wolfowitz

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