Sam Shepard Quotes

I've had it up to my ears with the personal mythology. It's getting kind of personally sickening. The personal stuff just turns out to be misinterpreted. I've had such an earful for so long, it's gotten tedious. I figure if you stay away from it, you're safe.

Sam Shepard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: playwright
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 5, 1943 - July 27, 2017

Topics

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I would say I have a complicated relationship with institutionalized religion.

Joe Meno

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When you go into a situation, and you're honest and straight-up about something, you put all your cards on the table.

Joe Bonamassa

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I inherited Mom's verbal skills, and participated in forensics and essay contests in elementary school - and won every essay contest I ever entered.

Joel Salatin

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When Jen Aniston and Brad Pitt broke up, I was dying to see something that said they were getting back together.

Jennifer Garner

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A critic once described me as an 'amiable beanpole.' I got it printed on a T-shirt.

John Gordon Sinclair

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Music is a prerogative of those who are willing to spend time to study it, understand and love it, well aware of the fact that one life is not enough to improve just one single note of what has already been written and performed.

Andrea Bocelli

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Anyone who wants to see a very free world does not want government. I also don't like being extorted or being aggressed against by others.

Jeff Berwick

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Picture what this country felt like in the weeks and months after 9/11. Can you imagine anyone even beginning to allow an advertising campaign promoting Islam, being endorsed and supported by a man the feds believe to be a terrorist, on New York City subways?

Mike Gallagher

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I hate fund-raising. Haaaaate it. Hate, hate it.

Michelle Obama

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When I came to M.I.T. in 1960, only 4 percent of the students were female. Today, it's about 40 percent of undergraduates. At Lincoln Lab, they had 1,000 men and two women. But we had a very good boss, and he treated us just like everybody else.

Mildred Dresselhaus

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I hate going anywhere. I'm really excited to travel and play all these different places, but if I had it my way, I would stay inside, maybe go to the back garden or walk around the corner to the shops. That's it.

Courtney Barnett

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It strikes me that golf's great virtue is that it gets you out of the house, away from everyday bothers, away from the endless round of looking for this, that and the other.

Craig Brown

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