Quotes with out-of-this-world

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  • Angela Carter That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • C. Everett Koop That is why we are working with these various groups that have volunteers. We can get a lot of these things done. Nobody has dropped out, and a lot of people would like to join. We now know what each other does.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Samuel Johnson That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Billy Bragg That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, really.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Edmond de Goncourt That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • B. J. Daniels That whole rivalry with the fans is not something that I can pay attention to right now. This is my new home, and whatever I can do to help out Seattle is what I need to do.
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  • Belle Livingstone That winter two things happened which made me see that the world, the flesh, and the devil were going to be more powerful influences in my life after all than the chapel bell. First, I tasted champagne, second, the theatre.
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  • Branford Marsalis That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Evelyn Waugh That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Billy Crudup That's what I always enjoyed about acting, the real adrenalin rush. My heart - still before I go on stage - crashing out of my chest. That's thrilling to me.
    Billy Crudup
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Bud Abbott That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody.
    Bud Abbott
    American comedian and actor (1897 - 1974)
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  • Eldridge Cleaver The ''paper tiger'' hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • Jean Baudrillard The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Ben Okri The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Alfred de Vigny The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Phyllis Schlafly The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes used to ensure control of the largest cash market in the world: the Executive Branch of the United States Government.
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  • Milarepa The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.
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  • Raymond Chandler The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Anne Tyler The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Brenda Lee The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.
    Brenda Lee
    American singer (1944 - )
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