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Quotes 1141 till 1160 of 3662.

  • Augusten Burroughs I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Roland Barthes I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Adam Arkin I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to 'ER' were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Taylor Swift I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.
    Twitter, 31-12-2015
    Taylor Swift
    American singer-songwriter (1989 - )
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • James Baldwin I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The anomaly of their sexuality puts them in danger, unexpectedly.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Anne McCaffrey I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Alfred de Vigny I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Anne Rice I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Virgil I too must attempt a way by which I can raise myself above the ground, and soar triumphant through the lips of men.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Edward Gibbon I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Salman Rushdie I used to say: ''there is a God-shaped hole in me.'' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Antonio Tabucchi I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • John Jay Chapman I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • Gloria Steinem I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Alfred P. Sloan I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Ang Lee I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Benazir Bhutto I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.
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    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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