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I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where your dreams will… — Jarvis Cocker
It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents,… — Karrie Webb
Where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater, so devoid of… — Bret Easton Ellis
What happens often - although I'm not particularly a victim of this sort of thing - is that somebody will make a quote, or invent… — Robert Palmer
Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a few yards and… — James Gleick
I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put a few arbitrary… — Richard Diebenkorn
If you see the humanity in the world, grains of sand that bring everything to a halt â€” it's corruption, clashes of egos, human factors… — Matthieu Ricard
This is the sort of situation I enjoy: a game in the San Siro, a huge crowd and a night for big men. Remember, only… — Marcel Desailly
Paleontologists ever since Darwin have been searching (largely in vain) for the sequences of insensibly graded series of fossils that would stand as examples of… — Niles Eldredge
Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. He is a state… — George Gaylord Simpson
If my life is motivated by my ambition to leave a legacy, what I'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition. But if my life… — Rich Mullins
There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who… — William Vickrey
Peace of the sort that brings wholeness, harmony, and health to our lives only happens when chaos, confusion, and conflict are included and transcended. — Harrison Owen
Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going… — Lev Yilmaz
I like to play fast. I get excited, and I have to sort of control myself, restrain myself. But when the rhythm section gets cooking,… — Johnny Griffin
If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this lack of well… — Rudolf Flesch
Once I have the finished sculpture, Iâ€™ll put it out on the street or in nature or somewhere where it interacts with the environment. Really… — Mark Jenkins
I felt that this is the only thing which helps me to have hope... a sort of religion, actually. Music is God. — Alice Herz-Sommer
Life isn't always easy and we are never guaranteed that things will always go smoothlyâ€¦It progresses with an almost constant series of challenges, but these… — Brooke Ellison
You made a point about proof. In this sort of history we do nt have proof... Yet... the incontrovertibility of the evidence can be plain… — Robert Conquest

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