Ben Dolnick Quotes

For a long time, since story collections look almost precisely like novels, I presumed that they were meant to be enjoyed in the same way as novels.

Ben Dolnick

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TimeStoryLongLookMeant To Be

I didn't want to overdo things with fashion. I wanted to mix and match the basics and classics to make it, you know, effortlessly fashionable.

Jessica Jung

FashionYouKnowWantBasicsThings

My parents are European immigrants. And I think as Europeans there are so many languages in close proximity that it's part of the culture to try to learn at least one other language. So my parents really encourage it in the house. Chinese would be really great to learn - like Mandarin or Cantonese. Portuguese would be incredible.

Stana Katic

GreatCultureParentsThinkLanguage

It is a leftist myth that European conquerors and settlers encountered only peaceful, virtuous tribes and subdued them murderously in the name of Christianity and Capitalism.

Tom Tancredo

CapitalismNamePeacefulMythOnly

Our country - whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less; - still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, and to be defended by all our hands.

Robert Charles Winthrop

HandsCountryMoreHeartsStillOur

Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'

Mikhail Baryshnikov

LifeMyselfNeverStagePoker

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

Lowell Thomas

DayThinkYouMoreLittleThan

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

Judith Jamison

BeautyDancePeopleSeeGiveCome

Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty.

Chrisette Michele

BeautyTruthFreedomHairTruth Is

Words will never be enough to quantify and qualify the many magnitudes of human-caused destruction.

Clemantine Wamariya

WordsEnoughWillNeverDestruction

I'm an only child, and in college, I was given a single, and then I lived with people for, like, two years but were my best friends, and we had a really fun time. And then I lived alone or with a boyfriend. I've never really had a bad roommate situation.

Ari Graynor

AloneTimeBestFunChildCollege

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

AgeGreatYouHumanBeginHead

When you're underwater with goggles on, a couple of your senses are taken away, and it becomes this purely visual thing. It's just you and yourself.

Mark Foster

YourselfYouUnderwaterVisualJust

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