Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which gives awards to literature and nonfiction.

Joyce Carol Oates

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The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do deserve to lose money.

Jim Cramer

MoneyPeopleLoseKnowDeserveUp

Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves.

Jesse James Garrett

WorkExperienceAppreciationWriting

When a president makes life and death decisions, he should draw strength and wisdom from broad and deep experience with the reasons for and the risks of committing our children to our defense. For no matter how many others are involved in the decision, the president is a lonely man in a dark room when the casualty reports come in.

John McCain

LifeStrengthWisdomChildrenDeath

The hardest one, the thing that made the greatest demand on me, was The Mamas & the Papas.

Michelle Phillips

MeGreatestHardestDemandMade

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

LifeSportsSucceedWinningGame

Why can't she move in with you? Is she against that? She's not a Mormon or anything, is she?

Joseph Bologna

YouWhySheAnythingAgainstMove

He's a great kid. He hates the same way I do.

Joseph P. Kennedy

GreatWayKidSameHatesHe

We're fighting an enemy that is far different than any we have got before. It's a nontraditional kind of war, and I think we need to step back, recalibrate how we go about protecting our borders and protecting our people, and resetting our position in the world.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

WarStepPeopleWorldThinkBack

A lot of people are like, 'So you want to be famous.' And I'm like, 'No, I want to be good at my craft. I don't care about fame, I don't care if I even ever make it. As long as people know what I am as an actress in this business, I'm set for my career right now.'

Chloe Grace Moretz

GoodBusinessI AmPeopleCareYou

I always feel like an outsider. I'll always feel like the nerd at the party.

Christopher McQuarrie

FeelPartyAlwaysOutsiderNerd

They kicked me out of the church when I'm a little girl because they said I'm singing like a dog. They didn't want me to sing there anymore.

Concha Buika

DogGirlMeSingingChurchSaid

I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law.

Connor Jessup

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