William T. Vollmann Quotes

I first got really interested in Noh in about 1977. There was an independent bookstore in Bloomington, Indiana where I was going to high school. It was a really nice place. There was a New Directions paperback. It was the Pound/Fenollosa book, 'The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan.'

William T. Vollmann

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It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up.

Jo Brand

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Were there no contrariety of interests, nothing would be more simple and easy than to form and preserve free institutions. The right of suffrage alone would be a sufficient guarantee. It is the conflict of opposing interests which renders it the most difficult work of man.

John C. Calhoun

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I'm a peace-maker, I can fit into a lot of situations. I'm pretty easygoing. I have a lot of patience.

Jennifer Garner

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To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

Andrew Pyper

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I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Robert Frost

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I think anyone who uses the web is smart and will profit.

Jason Mraz

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The one thing that frustrates me more than anything else is that no studio has ever told me to tone down violence. They only ask you to make it more presentable.

Christopher McQuarrie

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In a sense, all Americans are battle-born. Our ancestors came here for something better.

Brandon Flowers

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An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.

Peter Singer

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I usually eat a pretty big steak the night before I compete.

Shaun White

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Care work contributes enormously to the well-being of our societies and to the sustainability of our economies.

Sharan Burrow

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For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.

Thora Birch

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