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Earl King Quotes

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: February 7, 1934 - April 17, 2003

Topics

Trying Person Write Always Different

I hate those unrealistic goals that people place on women. It's just not right. It took us nine months to have our babies and put on this weight. I gained 55 pounds with my daughter, so I get it. It's tough. But you can't just pop out a baby and expect to be the size you were before. It just doesn't work like that.

Jessie James Decker

Work Goals Women Daughter Hate Baby

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

Beauty World More Complex Intense

I love the idea of going to work and having to fight and learn a new skill set, whether it's muay Thai or Kali or Filipino stick fighting. To me, it's like college for life.

Life Work Love Fight College Me

When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts, our allies, and the American people. And when we uphold the rule of law it provides a powerful alternative to the twisted worldview offered by al-Qa'ida.

John O. Brennan

People Law Tools American Powerful

Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.

Law American Duty Will Right Expect

I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push people's emotional buttons, and especially their negative emotional buttons. Because words soak up emotional connotations and are processed involuntarily by the listener, you can't will yourself not to treat the word in terms of what it means.

Words Yourself People Treat Negative

I'm never as happy as when I'm pregnant. I literally would have 10 babies if I could!

Happy Never If I Could Would Babies

Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where.

Fly Rest Cloud Know Air Up

That's the beauty of living in New York City is that a good chunk of the media is here and willing to drink with you.

Good Beauty New York City Media You

I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.

Children Time Step Space Me Writing

Sometimes, if you wander long enough out-of-doors, you look up and find yourself in a suddenly devastating place: on a glittering slab of granite, say, hanging a thousand feet above a mountain lake.

Mountain Yourself Feet Enough Look

I did not want to spend the rest of my life not being able to ride in a nice car.

Life Car Ride Rest My Life Nice

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