Edmund White Quotes

The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up from our maple-wood twin beds and fell onto the great squishy, heated water bed of the Sixties.

Edmund White

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Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in your town: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian. Is it any wonder that the Italian High Renaissance lasted only 30 years?

Jerry Saltz

YourselfTryingArtistWonderLiving

I would say there are three important things about graphene. It's two-dimensional, which is the best possible number for studying fundamental physics. The second thing is the quality of graphene, which stems from its extremely strong carbon-carbon bonds. And finally, the system is also metallic.

Andre Geim

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I think there's a lot of problems with being a two-party system.

Meg White

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Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.

John McCarthy

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There's always somebody you can call and go have lunch with and just talk out an idea. And it's great, because I need that. It's part of my writing process, to early on sit people down and say, 'Alright, this film I'm working on...' and I tell them everything I have.

Jeff Nichols

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I enjoy provocative things that are questionable.

Michael Douglas

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I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes a lot. We didn't have an art department; we didn't have a make-up department.

John Sayles

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Anyone who thinks sports are ruled by athletes need only think of American sports' most enduring tradition: Immediately after a championship, as the champagne sprays and the confetti falls, the trophy is passed not to the team captain but most often to the team owner, handed to him by his highest-ranking employee, the league commissioner.

Steve Rushin

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Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge.

Tom Jenkinson

LifeMusicMy LifeEdgeOverBrief

I love adventure, so I'm excited to be working on something new and making the transition from reality show contestant to host.

Rob Mariano

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Perhaps future space probes will be plastered in commercial logos, just as Formula One cars are now. Perhaps Robot Wars in space will be a lucrative spectator sport. If humans venture back to the moon, and even beyond, they may carry commercial insignia rather than national flags.

Martin Rees

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The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.

Mitch McConnell

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