Darryl Pinckney Quotes

I grew up in Indianapolis, Ind., then a conservative, provincial city. Anglophilia was the first foreign language I was exposed to. Or maybe it was a way of one-upping the local white people. Or maybe it was an early manifestation of homohood.

Darryl Pinckney

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Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.

John Bright

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I'm very good at drawing fouls.

Joel Embiid

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Life itself is so surprising, a predictable story is unsatisfying.

Jennifer Egan

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I respect coaches; I respect what good coaches do. I know that you don't learn to be a coach in an hour and a half.

John Madden

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Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing words - usually lousy ones - for their own sake. And nap: it helps to refresh the brain, at least mine.

Amy Waldman

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Why am I a liberal? Because I don't forget that I'm an immigrant and that I'm a Hispanic and that I have a Latin accent when I speak English, and I want to defend those who get racially profiled by people who would discriminate against us?

Ana Navarro

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To the extent that I can add value and make my country a better place, that's a good thing to do.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

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I'm not the kind that could lead the millionaire lifestyle. I've got a truck, and I've got my bike. I've got a lovely Labrador and two kitty-cats. I live very modestly.

Sophie B. Hawkins

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We need to keep an eye on influences from the Middle East or, let's say, indigenous groups, that might be involved in terrorism.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

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I had a good record company right from the beginning, and I'm still with them after all these years. I think I may be the only person in the world that's had a tenure this long with any record company.

Johnny Mathis

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Nobody cares for the product I, and a host of other horror directors, make.

Clive Barker

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Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

Pope Francis

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