Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat
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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #experience

If you weren't pretty, it wouldn't matter what you said or didn't say. That's why you're getting this attention. ~Miesha Tate
#quotes #miesha-tate #women #attention

I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
#quotes #lauren-oliver #thinking #death

Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
#proverbs #slovakian-proverbs #water #medicine

I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. ~Mark Leyner
#quotes #mark-leyner #happiness

If you didn't watch "The Shield," you should stop everything you are doing and go back and watch "The Shield." ~Timothy Simons
#quotes #timothy-simons

The term "genre" eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started. ~Christopher Nolan
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Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing. ~Tom Jenkinson
#quotes #tom-jenkinson #squarepusher #one-direction #writing #music

There's a degree of deception in silence. ~Don Lemon
#quotes #don-lemon #silence #deception

I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous. ~Mel Brooks
#quotes #mel-brooks #chris-rock #entertainment

I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that. ~David Kay
#quotes #david-kay #iraq

I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says. ~Dick Cheney
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
#quotes #jane-austen #laziness #work

We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church. ~Johnny Hunt
#quotes #johnny-hunt #christianity

Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same. ~Barbara Kingsolver
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When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete.
#quotes #dan-o-brien #sports #work #personality

There is a very simple secret to being happy. Just let go of your "demand" on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You are arguing with "what is." Your demands keep you chained to the "dream state" of the conditioned mind. The desire to "control" is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake. ~Adyashanti
#quotes #adyashanti #happiness

I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again. ~Mara Wilson
#quotes #mara-wilson #movies

Who are you? The band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say. ~Janet Fitch
#quotes #janet-fitch #music

Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
#quotes #jane-jacobs #society #innovation #economy

"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
#proverbs #german-proverbs #reason

Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing. ~Carrie Fisher
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I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music. ~Nick Cave
#quotes #nick-cave #music #australia

I have always been really scared of scary movies just because I live by myself; and then seeing something, then having a big imagination and then like thinking you see it in the middle of the night. So I've never been really into them. ~Ashley Tisdale
#quotes #ashley-tisdale #movies #night #thinking #imagination