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81099 quotes by 24339 authors
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We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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Ever notice that Soup for One is eight aisles away from Party Mix?
— Elayne Boosler
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For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of my act straight…
— Elayne Boosler
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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.
— Norman Borlaug
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The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people call the 'seagull…
— Tony Abbott
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Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.
— Phyllis Bottome
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I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.
— Christina Aguilera
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I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.
— Anthony Bourdain
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People's choice to become vegan, from people I've spoken to, seems motivated by fear.
— Anthony Bourdain
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You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.
— Anthony Bourdain
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Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's…
— Anthony Bourdain
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For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and this order, and…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of…
— Anthony Bourdain
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The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really…
— Christina Aguilera
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