Anne Lamott Quotes

I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the secular level. And to be a peace marcher, an activist for civil rights, peace and justice.

Anne Lamott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 10, 1954

Topics

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I have one message for young musicians around the world: Stay true to your heart, believe in yourself, and work hard.

Joe Cocker

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The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.

Joan Didion

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The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.

Jerry Saltz

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Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist.

John Eaton

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I've never been interested in a career in modelling, I was interested in my independence. When I was in school, modelling was what I needed to reach independence without having to leave.

Maya Hawke

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I am always interested in helping and growing new tech start-ups and ideas.

John McAfee

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It's easy when you're working together to let work things overtake your life, when all you're talking about is work, and you never leave that space.

St. Lucia

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I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

Ronald Reagan

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Unless I have my aunt or my boyfriend to take care of me, I'm a little pathetic.

Rufus Wainwright

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In some ways, calm bodily protest has a nakedness to it that may be deeply embarrassing for observers; an act not unlike the bare-faced Oliver Twist effrontery that stands vulnerably before authority, asking for more or better.

Michael Leunig

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They don't actually see the real world, where 95% of the people with HIV are not treated and are dying. And even though we have some blue sky now in our country, the sky could become cloudy again very soon.

Luc Montagnier

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So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.

Diane Lane

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