Hanya Yanagihara Quotes

We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.

Hanya Yanagihara

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DeathLosingWinningBattleLiving

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

Jeremy Taylor

GodTimeManShortEarthEternity

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

John Cheever

LifeCommunicationWriteNeedSense

Disgracefully, the arts have too often borne the brunt of short-sighted cuts to educational budgets.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

ArtsShort-SightedOftenTooBudgets

The sudden appearance of mushrooms after a summer rain is one of the more impressive spectacles of the plant world.

John Tyler Bonner

RainWorldPlantAppearanceSummer

If you demand the best, sometimes you get it.

Stanley Marcus

BestYouSometimesGetDemand

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.

Mitt Romney

TruthHistoryJobAmericanLoss

Every actor has a strength, and sometimes you just respond to things that you see yourself better at. I'm aware of what I can and can't do.

Jason Statham

StrengthYourselfBetterYouI Can

My size is an asset to me. People write roles for me. If I was just another blond-haired, brown-eyed, 18-year-old actor, I'd be left unrecognized. People remember me.

Josh Ryan Evans

PeopleMeRememberActorWriteSize

I have been constantly shaping and reshaping my career. I laid a foundation by doing respectful work in all media. And I am happy with what I have done.

Colman Domingo

WorkI AmHappyFoundationDoing

It used to take a day to get over the partying. But I don't party anymore. I don't miss it, either.

Clarence Clemons

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People talk about that catch and, I've said this many times, that I've made better catches than that many times in regular season. But of course in my time, you didn't have a lot of television during the regular season. A lot of people didn't see me do a lot of things.

Willie Mays

TimePeopleMeBetterYouSaid

But had they not paid that advance we would have lost much more, we would have started to go and look for the product all over again, the refinery would have stopped working.

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

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