Lynda Barry Quotes

When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go 'I need to write a book. What's a good question?' It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head. So for 'What It Is,' it was this idea of 'What is an image?'

Lynda Barry

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Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.

Jim Rogers

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We need to use the benefit of our law enforcement people across this country, combined with our intelligence people across this country. We need to use our technological advantages, because what we've warned of is an international guerrilla movement that threatens this country.

Jim Gilmore

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I'm a father with two daughters, and I don't want them to feel that they have to go and work in China when they are older.

Joe Kaeser

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I always do a lot of work around characters to make them real people because, oftentimes, they really are a sliver of a person. Even with truly wonderful writers, women characters are there to emote, and they're often incredibly chaste or worthy. Or they're a 'different type of woman', which is the worst.

Andrea Riseborough

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I love sensual materials like silk or cashmere.

Jeanne Damas

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Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

John Ruskin

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I wrote probably my phattest banging record with Knife Party: 'Pile Driver.'

Steve Aoki

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I had a weird accent. Dutch people speak American English, and my parents were Jamaican, with their own broken English.

Stefflon Don

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People don't give Yachty the credit that he deserves.

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I'm scared of screwing up my kids.

Tori Spelling

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D.C. is one my largest audiences. They buy tons of records of mine in Washington, D.C.

Marvin Sapp

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Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.

Miriam Makeba

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