Particularly Quotes
1950 quotes by 1551 authors
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Just as infinite access to free music ultimately leads to no one making a living at music anymore, free journalism just doesn't pay for itself…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Narrative Collapse is what happens when we no longer have time in which to tell a story. Remote controls and DVRs give us the ability…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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The true end users of Facebook are the marketers who want to reach and influence us. They are Facebook's paying customers; we are the product.…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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I had so many professions before. I didn't want to do this particularly. It just happened.
— Marjane Satrapi
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He could tell at once that they carried different sorts of bubble bath mixed with the water though it wasn't bubble bath as Harry had…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women.
— Anne Lamott
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Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
— Edward Abbey
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Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.
— Ann Brashares
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I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times." Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to his left. Then…
— Haruki Murakami
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There are means that cannot be excused. And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want…
— Albert Camus
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Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.
— Jasper Fforde
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A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.
— Daniel Handler
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We aren't particularly talented. We try harder!
— Joe Strummer
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I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving…
— John Steinbeck
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There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even…
— Agatha Christie
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I was particularly stunned by the casting of [Tom] Cruise, who is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler.
— Anne Rice
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To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise…
— Don DeLillo
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I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive than heroin, more addictive than cigarettes.
— Dan Rather
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Tiffany has been apprenticing as a witch by visiting people in need with her mentor. After meeting with one particularly sad case, she tells her…
— Terry Pratchett
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