Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they're able to revisit their own developmental stages and recognise themselves and undo a lot of things they decided.

Chuck Palahniuk

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ChildrenFriendsEnvyOwnThings

Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.

Andrew Marvell

TimeWorldEnoughLadyCrimeWere

As an industry, the film industry is better than most. It's not perfect - I wish every company would carbon-offset their productions - but it's better than one would expect.

Jeffrey Skoll

Not PerfectBetterWishPerfectFilm

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

Jeff Bezos

LeadershipStrongerRevenueMarket

We think that when the American people make a decision together that they want something, politicians have to listen to them, and that's the process we believe in.

Tom Steyer

DecisionTogetherPeopleBelieve

The student body was huge at UT and you had to mature pretty quick, very quick actually. I enjoyed it and it helped me a lot in my life in general - not only in the classroom but on the baseball field as well.

Roger Clemens

LifeBaseballMeMy LifeYouBody

I'm proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It's a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

Lou Holtz

GreatDayCollegeMeChanceProud

The one thing that makes me nuts is if there's a problem or something that I don't know about.

Bonnie Hammer

MeProblemKnowNutsSomething

I'm not really a computer man, to be honest. I check my emails every couple of weeks.

Bradley Wiggins

ManCheckHonestTo Be HonestEmails

I love my hourglass figure.

Ashley Graham

LoveHourglassFigureI Love

I think of myself as a Hollywood hillbilly, but I'm sick of all these questions people ask about Alabama. 'Do you have an outhouse?' 'Is there a lot of inbreeding in your family?' They think all Southerners don't have computers and TV sets and that we're all still living in 1862.

Sunny Mabrey

FamilyMyselfPeopleSickThinkYou

In the years that I worked in museums, first as a summer student and eventually as a curator, one of the primary lessons I learned was this: History is shaped by the people who seek to preserve it. We, of the present, decide what to keep, what to put on display, what to put into storage, and what to discard.

Susanna Kearsley

HistoryPeoplePresentStudentFirst

Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.

Peter Straub

AuthorityEventsQuestionQuestioning

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