Writing has to support itself.
V. S. Naipaul
Recitation: by Male by Female
I realize that some folks might not believe me in this - I didn't run for Congress on the hopes that one day you're going to run for something else.
Joe Kennedy III
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My risk tolerance is higher than some people's, but it's not nearly as high as some people's. I don't want to exaggerate my bravado. I haven't been on the front lines. I haven't ever stepped on a land mine.
Andrew Solomon
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To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.
John Locke
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Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
John Steinbeck
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I wanted to be in museums. I don't do things to be small.
Amy Sherald
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I've gotten so into the thing of moving, moving, moving, but I'm desperate to have a home. I just want my own little spot - I'm saving, but it's difficult because of the shopping... I'm actually addicted to online shopping - it's something about the packages arriving!
Suki Waterhouse
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To be fair to the Inquisition, they only used confessions extracted after the torture had ended, which let them claim that admissions had been freely given; the fact that the torture would have started again if they hadn't confessed was a minor detail.
Simon Hoggart
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We've been most successful when we stand for, unified, behind what we believe philosophically and policywise.
Tom Graves
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Stoutly pro-tax-cut and libertarian on social issues like abortion, Trump is a Republican with the business know-how to turn the country's economy around.
Roger Stone
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People sometimes say, 'Why do you choose a part?' and sometimes it's not that I chose it but that that was the one that came along.
David Thewlis
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I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up for that.
Anna Wintour
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I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.
Shannon Lucid
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