Gene Weingarten Quotes

When she was too young to resist, or even to understand, I turned my daughter into a lifelong, rabid Yankees fan.

Gene Weingarten

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There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to make books for short attention spans with bells and whistles - books, in short, that are as much like 'Angry Birds' as possible. But I think that's a terrible idea.

John Green

AngryBirdsThinkInternetShort

Whoever my films are about, they'll hopefully still have my sensibility, whatever that is.

Andrew Haigh

WhateverStillAboutSensibility

When we talk about 'Sweetback,' yes, it stars the whole black movement, but it's also the first time an independent film made that kind of money and was that successful and taken seriously.

Melvin Van Peebles

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How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

Johnny Cash

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I think about the very truth that changed my life. I want to put good things in my music.

Trip Lee

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I want to manufacture a feud.

Rob Corddry

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I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink.

Ron Paul

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I really just want an audience that is willing to let me live my life and share with them what I get out of my life.

Lizz Wright

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Washington isn't utterly dysfunctional.

Douglas Brunt

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I've always loved those portraits that Alfred Stieglitz did of Georgia O'Keeffe over several years, which really convey the idea that there's not one image that can capture a woman, because we're changing all the time.

Christy Turlington

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When I did the video for 'Holding Out For A Hero,' we filmed that on top of the Grand Canyon, and that was quite frightening. I was close to the edge, and there was a helicopter hovering about, creating a lot of wind, and I was nervous I was going to fall off.

Bonnie Tyler

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I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.

Brandon Boyd

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