Dana Spiotta Quotes

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

Dana Spiotta

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I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

Jessamyn West

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I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.

John Banville

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I'd always been a very competitive boy - I hated coming second.

Joel Robuchon

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Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

Jean Rostand

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At the end of the day, it's a fight, and anything can happen.

Stipe Miocic

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I'd be much more likely to watch the latest Tarantino movie than to listen to a Mahler symphony.

Simon Rattle

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I was born here and I was raised here in Los Angeles. And when I was five years old, my best friends were Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen because we lived across the street from each other.

Troian Bellisario

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As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you've got it right.

Tom Sturridge

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How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God's providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

Russell M. Nelson

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I find there are a few places where I like to meditate more than in other places. There's a little Catholic church that I go to, and there's another temple I go to - there are certain places where I just feel more comfortable.

Michael Keaton

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We don't talk about the timing of open matters, but I certainly agree with the FBI director that in every investigation, no matter whom it involves, we are thorough, we are fair, we are efficient, and we move through the facts and the evidence and come to the conclusions that are called upon.

Loretta Lynch

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I call it small government, grass-roots activism: The Tea Party activists are a part of it, FreedomWorks is part of it. FreedomWorks is the longest-standing, most active organization within this movement.

Dick Armey

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