Cynthia Voigt Quotes

Reading was my hobby, my sport and my activity of choice. It was the prime pleasure of my days, an unfailing escape from whatever realities were distressing me, and the only source of pride I knew, other vanities lying beyond my grasp. I couldn't do anything else well, but I could do words.

Cynthia Voigt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 25, 1942

Topics

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I will not support a federal budget that cuts funds for sanctuary cities, states, or universities.

Jimmy Gomez

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Make no mistake, a 'yes' vote on the Democrats' health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions.

John Boehner

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I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't there been more violence, more armed struggle? I know answers to some of that, but it seems to me it's an issue of faith, an abiding faith in some sort of great beyond, or great spirit, or even in the American dream.

John Edgar Wideman

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Baseball has better opening days and All-Star Games than the N.F.L. does. Ours stink.

John Madden

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My basic influence had probably been Peter Max.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

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When I speak of diversity, I don't mean replacement of white comics. I don't mean acceptance by white comics. We comics who weren't born into the white guy paradigm of 'funny' don't need a handout. We don't need a PC push. We don't need 'a look.'

Amanda Seales

FunnyAcceptanceDiversitySpeak

What you realize hanging out with investigative reporters is that, while they may be personally liberal, they don't let that get in the way of a good story.

Steve Bannon

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My only ambition was to have 10 children. Fashion was an accident.

Sonia Rykiel

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Win, lose or draw, you're all my cousins and I love you.

Chill Wills

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Some instinct has told me I need to live in a world that isn't consumed with reading about myself or anyone else or someone's opinion about something. I need to be clear of that. It's just healthier for me. I feel happier.

Christopher Guest

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I went back to DJ'ing in 1987, and it's been an incredible second career for me. Plus, it's almost a parallel universe. If you don't go to underground clubs, you wouldn't know what I do or who I am. So there's been a whole new audience of people that don't even know I'm that 'Boy George', the one their mother used to like.

Boy George

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In Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes at the expense of their gods and goddesses and that's what I did.

Sunil Gangopadhyay

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