Wyndham Lewis Quotes

I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum.

Wyndham Lewis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: November 18, 1882 - March 7, 1957

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I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought, 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.' But sure, criticism can sometimes still get to me. Some things are so malicious, they knock the wind out of you.

Melissa McCarthy

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I'd rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don't really care for.

Michael Biehn

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I'm constantly fighting the angry black woman stigma, the 'You're pretty, you can't be funny' stigma.

Amanda Seales

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Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated... No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

Solomon Asch

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My father being a soldier, every time I saw soldiers marching - 'Well,' I thought, 'my father's that,' and these soldiers were always looking magnificent. And I thought they were powerful; they were all-powerful. I knew that they were an elite in India.

Spike Milligan

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Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone's life.

Molly Parker

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But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

Joni Mitchell

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I'm a pro-capitalist, middle-of-the-road, tepid centrist.

Anthony Lewis

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Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.

Anthony Bourdain

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Using medicine in the service of cosmesis is generally bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for democracy. The only exceptions are when we know the intervention will actually reduce suffering, as with a primary cleft lip repair.

Alice Dreger

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Being steadfast and immovable with our heels in tar on the Lord's side of the line is the only strategy that works long-term against Lucifer.

Sheri L. Dew

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