Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.

Joyce Carol Oates

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Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food.

Joel Salatin

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Get your nutritional information from registered dieticians, not miracle healers. You'll be happier, and it's less expensive.

Maye Musk

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We shouldn't persuade people that we can simply conjure up the sun and the moon: at the most, we can deliver a telescope.

Jean-Claude Juncker

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Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels.

John Piper

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Teens are passionate, questioning, curious, have a bit of the idealism I still cling to, and they're making decisions for the first time that can alter the course of their lives - and sometimes, the course of the world.

Mary E. Pearson

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The question of trademark is pretty unsettled in the open source world. The trademark is important in a consumer product, but there are a few groups who feel it's a restriction they can't live with.

Mitchell Baker

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The only message that terrorists need to get is that they're going to be beaten.

Jose Maria Aznar

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The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

Christopher Fry

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Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.

Brene Brown

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While looking up news from the North Caucasus on Twitter, I was linked to the sanguinely titled 'Seven Wonders of Chechnya Tour' on the website of Chechnya Travel, the postwar republic's first tourism outfit, founded in 2012.

Anthony Marra

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A lot of celebrities who come on WWE, they don't know what to expect. And sometimes our crowd and our fans eat them up.

Seth Rollins

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I've been told a million times that I should do a Pantene ProV commercial because my hair is really shiny and long and healthy and I have a lot of it.

Tiffany Dupont

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