Quotes with out-of-this-world

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  • Bruce Springsteen But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Audre Lorde But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Anthony Trollope But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Anthony Doerr But then of course you reach a point where you have to say, I've got to figure out how this book's going to end. Otherwise, you're going to write yourself into so many dead-ends.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Barry McGuire But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably the main thing. The Beatles just changed the whole world of music.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Alan Watts But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Virginia Woolf But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world - a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Jonathan Swift But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Arianna Huffington But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Albert Claude But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Brian De Palma But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.
    Brian De Palma
    American film director and screenwriter (1940 - )
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  • Barbara Corcoran Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Barbara Demick By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Mark Twain By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Lao-Tzu By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Ian Mcewan By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State's crime when it sets out to crush that individuality.
    Ian Mcewan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Bhagat Singh By Revolution, we mean the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such breakdown, and in which the sovereignty of the proletariat should be recognized and a world federation should redeem humanity from the bondage of capitalism and misery of imperial wars.
    As quoted in Bhagat Singh and His Ideology
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Ban Ki-moon By strengthening the three pillars of the United Nations - security, development and human rights - we can build a more peaceful, more prosperous and more just world for our succeeding generations.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Barbara Demick By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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