Julian Baggini Quotes

Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.

Julian Baggini

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WaitingStandGooglePhonesOutUs

Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless set of variations... With basketball, you can correct your own mistakes, immediately and beautifully, in midair.

Jim Carroll

FearMistakesPoetryBasketballYou

I do remember being in high school and trying to go to an Outlaws concert, but I was too drunk and ended up in trouble with the police at some truck stop on 95 in Connecticut.

Jim Coleman

PoliceSchoolTruckHigh SchoolStop

Oh, I'm not beautiful. I can look beautiful; I can put beauty on. When I'm tired, I look bloody awful. I think I'm turning into the actress from 'Dynasty,' Linda Evans.

Joanna Lumley

BeautyBeautifulTiredThinkLook

I love music and songwriters from the '60s and '70s.

Jesse Plemons

LoveMusicSongwritersI Love

Working in a prison, is, to my mind, similar in ways to working in a coal mine. It's going to scare away a lot of people.

Jennifer Haigh

PeopleMindPrisonGoingWorking

Not naming names, but it shocks me, some of the people who get the breaks.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

PeopleMeNamesGetNamingBreaks

I remember, when I was writing 'Traffic,' talking to top federal drug-enforcement officials and having them say they read it and found it very good and believable, except the scene where the girl describes her resume.

Stephen Gaghan

GoodGirlWritingTalkingRemember

We cannot give up on working toward that more perfect union.

Rory O'Malley

PerfectMoreUpGiveWorkingUnion

I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all.

Mitch Hedberg

GoodTimeYouWhyTryWasting Time

I usually put on a lip and some mascara before I head out of the house. It makes me feel good. I started experimenting with makeup back in high school. One of my friends, who shall remain nameless, shoplifted a bunch of drugstore cosmetics for me, and I would just play with it in my room at night.

Liv Bruce

GoodSchoolMeNightFeel GoodFeel

I refuse to bring my son up in a world corrupt as it is now.

Dick Dale

SonWorldNowUpCorruptBring

From afar, I have cried watching my nation, sore with prejudice, slowly heal itself. I hurt along with America, my phantom pains only alleviated by work I do every day - art.

Colman Domingo

WorkArtDayHurtAmericaEvery Day

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