Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

I remember once asking Grandma about a book she was reading, a biography of Abraham Lincoln, and how she answered me: this was the first conversation of my life that concerned a book, and 'the life of the mind' - and now, such subjects have become my life.

Joyce Carol Oates

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As a result, ways out of the crisis are being intensively searched for at all levels - ways, which, however, aim at maintaining the whites' control over the country.

Joe Slovo

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I'm not a video game guy. I would rather throw around a football.

Jeremy Piven

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Al Jazeera is demonized by the United States, yet in Egypt my father would be watching it.

Jehane Noujaim

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I feel like Nick and I have the best relationship and the best marriage.

Megan Mullally

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Religions, by definition, disagree as to the truth - a reality that cannot be overcome by demanding that one or the other faith repudiate its claim to truth.

Meir Soloveichik

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Don't hide in the dark and let someone else make your boss look like a rock star.

John Rampton

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Life is just an ongoing process.

Stefanie Powers

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Every time we've gone somewhere, it's just been better and better and God's always blessed us for following.

Stacie Orrico

GodTimeBlessedBetterAlwaysGone

From the time I was wee big, my mother was one of the first members of Mary Kay Cosmetics. Women going door-to-door and letting housewives have their own business - that was really a breakthrough. It was huge.

Robin Wright

MotherWomenBusinessTimeFirst

Don't be afraid to fail. For the love of God, don't be afraid to fail, because you're going to fail. So try to fail as hard as you can is what I would say, because you're always going to get up and you're going to learn something from it.

Monica Raymund

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I do like directing other people's material.

Brian De Palma

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I do genuinely dislike Tito Ortiz, and I don't have anything to prove to him.

Chuck Liddell

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