Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.

Joyce Carol Oates

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WorkGoodTeacherTimePeopleThink

A government of, by and for the people is obligated to conduct the nation's business in a manner that respects dissent.

Jim Leach

BusinessGovernmentPeopleNation

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

John Kenneth Galbraith

New YorkLongNewLondonTokyoBeen

Something amazing happens when you tell people you write about sports for a living. You begin to feel like you're in a scene from 'Dawn of the Dead.' The way people change when talking about 'their team' can be nothing short of zombiefication.

Mary Pilon

ChangeSportsPeopleAmazingTeam

When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make sense being played in front of 30,000 people. I steer away from subtlety in the interests of big bombastic dance music.

Moby

MusicDancePeopleFestivalsHands

I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive.

Jean Alesi

PositiveDisappointmentYouNever

I did 12 years with nuns, you know. So I came out of it going, like, 'I think Jesus is all right.' The rest of it I think stinks to the high heavens.

Denis Leary

RestThinkYouKnowRightHigh

The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.

Christine Baranski

TimeNegativeEnergyTryMoreGet

Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century Botswana's gross domestic product per capita grew faster than that of any other country on the planet. The once-labeled 'Third World' is edging its way into the 'First World.'

Peter Blair Henry

PeopleWorldPovertyCountryGrowing

I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success.

Paula Cole

SuccessAdversityMeAcceptHard

If people could be as honest as animals, what a different world it would be.

Tippi Hedren

PeopleWorldAnimalsHonestWould

You've just got to trust your instincts and realize that you can't please all the people all the time. You've got to please yourself ultimately in the end.

Noel Gallagher

TimeTrustYourselfPeopleEndYou

I was picked on because I was timid. I had younger sisters; I couldn't turn to them for help. I didn't have an older brother.

Mark E. Smith

BrotherHelpTurnBecauseOlder

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