Allan Gurganus Quotes

After a sound public education, I attended Penn and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. After being drafted into the military and studying Indonesian, I emerged as a writer, not a painter.

Allan Gurganus

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Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. That's it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can.

Joanna Lumley

LifeNatureTimeFlowersBirdsYou

The idea that in the system, if you manage it in an optimum way, all of the constituent parts of the system also win, flourish, and benefit, is intrinsic to business and even to capitalism itself, properly understood. But people don't understand it because we're not taught to think that way.

John Mackey

BusinessPeopleWinCapitalismThink

I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

Stephen King

RichAmericaYouWantFairPay

I just feel like sometimes people don't want to hear the truth. It's hard when you hear the truth. People want to hear what they want to hear. Sometimes I have a hard time with that because I'm very honest.

Stephanie Sigman

TruthTimePeopleFeelYouWant

When I ask my parents, it's incredibly obvious I was going to have a creative career at an early age. I've been forever telling stories since I was very young.

Sophie Kennedy Clark

AgeCreativeParentsEarlyCareer

I believe I made it in show business.

Sidney Sheinberg

BusinessBelieveI BelieveShowMade

You can't worry about ageing because that's the worst thing. If you start, then you just keep finding more things you don't like, and then you're finished. There are a lot of things I could have done to my face, but it would never stop.

China Machado

StartFaceWorryFindingYouStop

There's a rebel lying deep in my soul.

Clint Eastwood

SoulDeepMy SoulRebelLying

Mushrooms have many helpful nutrients, including beta glucans for immune enhancement, ergothioneines for antioxidative potentiation, nerve growth stimulators for helping brain function, and antimicrobial compounds for limiting viruses.

Paul Stamets

GrowthBrainHelpfulMushroomsMany

I write simply because I hear voices of people in my head who won't give me peace until I convey their stories to the rest of the world. Seriously. They've always been with me. While other girls played with dolls, and my brothers with Hot Wheels, I was busy traveling through space or traipsing through graveyards with my imaginary playmates.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

PeaceSpacePeopleMeWorldRest

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Thomas Carlyle

TrueUniversityDaysBooks

I've read some things where people are like, 'Beyonce wants to be white' because she has blonde highlights in her hair, but it's ridiculous. You know, she is who she is, and she's a very proud black woman. I know people with natural hair that are the least black inside; you know, it doesn't matter.

Tina Knowles

WomanPeopleHairProudBlackYou

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