Peter Carey Quotes

I woke up in Australia almost every day for the first 47 years of my life. When I left, I didn't discard that, didn't reject that, didn't forget that. Not even New York City can wipe that out.

Peter Carey

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Success and money can really be quite blinding.

Jim Harrison

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You can only be you, and there are plenty of people out there who wouldn't have you be any other way.

John Grant

PeopleYouWayOutOnlyWho

I go inside the Octagon for fight. I don't joke, because it's danger.

Anderson Silva

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I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

Maynard James Keenan

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If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

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As a kid, I would wake up, and there'd be a jazz funeral while I'm walking to school. And when I come home, you can find Rebirth band playing for a birthday party the same day.

Trombone Shorty

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I don't write plays for them to be turned into movies.

Tracy Letts

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There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

Tony Campolo

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Police officers put the badge on every morning, not knowing for sure if they'll come home at night to take it off.

Tom Cotton

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Home is wherever I hang my hat.

Miriam Margolyes

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Most designers don't dress in fashion. They dress in an anonymous way so that people are just judging their work.

Louise Wilson

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Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them. I don't. I don't want you to feel sorry for me.

Judith Moore

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