Terrance Hayes Quotes

My working habit is to separate my aims as a painting from my aims as a poet. They come from very different places and ultimately lead me to very different places... I'll leave what I mean by 'places' ambiguous.

Terrance Hayes

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When I was little... I didn't relate to princesses. I saw Maleficent, and I just thought she was so - she was so elegant.

Angelina Jolie

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In L.A., anytime a show is a success, people come out of the woodwork claiming they had the idea first.

Michael Avenatti

SuccessPeopleFirstOutShowCome

My first job was working at Benihana as kitchen help. In college, I was a telemarketer for a company at the same time I was a bike messenger for this greasy fast-food place.

Steve Aoki

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Investing in living-wage jobs and reducing the inequities between local school districts would give young people more, not less, incentive to postpone childbearing and more possibilities for independence.

Stephanie Coontz

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If liberalism discredited itself, Obama woulda never gotten elected, and the New Deal woulda gone by the wayside, and LBJ woulda never gotten the Great Society. Liberalism does not discredit itself. It has to be explained and beaten back.

Rush Limbaugh

GreatSocietyBackNewNeverGone

The Supreme Court has crafted doctrines such as 'fair use,' which permits copying materials for criticism, parody, and transformative uses, and has ruled that abstract ideas are not subject to copyright, because courts will not punish people for merely using an abstract concept in speech.

Marvin Ammori

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Congress does investigations better than they do anything else.

Mitch Landrieu

BetterCongressAnythingThanElse

Cycling into work every day is a brilliant way to add in extra training hours without feeling like you are taking up much time.

Jonathan Brownlee

WorkTimeDayTrainingYouFeeling

Hopefully, everyone has the same feeling I do when they perform. I get such a thrill from getting to play make believe. My favorite place to be is trying to be somebody else.

Chris Wood

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The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.

Brenda Lee

BusinessMusicColdHonorElders

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.

Linda Chavez

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Former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama, each were told repeatedly, 'You can't win.' They all won.

Kellyanne Conway

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