Jack Dunphy Quotes

Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.

Jack Dunphy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 22, 1914 - April 26, 1992

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SuccessIdentityPeopleBadForget

The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would introduce into distribution a genuinely arbitrary element, with a very large ultimate power to pervert the natural system.

John Bates Clark

PowerLaborTrueNeedSystemFinal

I understand the principles of dissent in parliament.

Jeremy Corbyn

UnderstandPrinciplesDissent

If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

Andrew Motion

PeopleMeAdmireOthersPoetAbove

I'm the kind of person that just goes in and does my job.

Andie MacDowell

JobPersonKindJustGoesDoes

Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.

Ann Patchett

LifeWifeWritingMy LifeSayUp

You gotta love Rick Perry's swagger. The Texas Governor is out there in the Iowa cornfields, unabashedly going to toe-to-toe with President Obama, doing his best to instantly cast himself as the big dog in the Republican pack.

Jeff Goodell

DogLoveBestTexasDoingYou

I can't tell you at DragCon how many families that waited in line to see me. Some of them waited up to five hours, and they had their family there. That's the beauty of this. I remember being that little gay boy in Mesquite that was so afraid of the world, like, 'Am I living right? Am I living wrong?'

Alyssa Edwards

FamilyBeautyMeWorldRememberYou

Oil your hair and take a head massage as often as possible for better blood circulation.

Sridevi

HairBetterBloodPossibleOilHead

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

WithoutManyToo

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.

Tony Campolo

BeginningGovernmentSocialBeenWho

We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.

Tom Ford

LiveBeautifulCultureHappyWorld

A melody without the right rhythm hardly exists.

Rokia Traore

RightRhythmWithoutMelodyHardly

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