Quotes 681 till 700 of 1039.
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People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.
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People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest fear is that someone will see it as a fling because they were young and it didn't mean anything.
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People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows.
Source: Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 277 -
People in the U.S. will watch anything if it's put in front of their face over and over again. I like to see what's possible, more than anything.
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People say, 'Weren't you deprived of your childhood?' No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was great. I got to go places, meet people, play baseball against older kids and better competition. I had a great time.
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People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television - you don't feel anything.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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People will do anything, anything, for a really nice laugh.
Source: The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore (2010) 550 -
Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
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Playing Etta James in the movie 'Cadillac Records' really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It's no fun being safe.
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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.
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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
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Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.
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Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.
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Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.
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School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.
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