Left Quotes
9060 quotes by 5549 authors
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If homosexuality being inborn is what makes it acceptable, why does racism being inborn not make racism acceptable? … We are born that way. We…
— Rush Limbaugh
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I'm not saying my fans are stupid, but I once left a cabbage onstage next to a harmonica and nobody noticed for three hours
— Thom Yorke
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Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning gums with empty…
— Raphael
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The campaign of character assassination waged [against President Clinton] by the right was a singular, unprecedented effort. Nothing like it exists on the left. What…
— David Brock
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And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real…
— Herman Melville
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Clouds out of control decoct anticipation. What use can any of us have for two moons? The miracle of order has run out and I…
— Samuel R. Delany
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You may think it odd that there were three men to look after one tiny station, but the people who ran the railway knew that…
— Joan Aiken
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We humans will never know how meadows or mountains smell, but deer and horses and pigs do. Bando sniffs deeply and shakes his head. We…
— Jean Craighead George
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I always felt like Gandalf should have stayed dead. That was such an incredible sequence in Fellowship of the Ring when he faces the Balrog…
— George R. R. Martin
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My father told me that some voices are so true they can be used as weapons, can maneuver the weather, change time. He said that…
— Joy Harjo
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Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what’s left sound natural.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and…
— Ann Patchett
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One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball…
— Mike Tyson
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If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of…
— Lars von Trier
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If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity
— Mahatma Gandhi
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There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the cross-roads of history and must choose which way to go.…
— Lal Bahadur Shastri
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I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take…
— Margery Allingham
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Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.
— Robert Charles Winthrop
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If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it's…
— Jay McInerney
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