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“The writer, in order to proceed, is theoretically trying to predict where his complex skein of language and image has left his reader, who he has likely never met and who is actually thousands of readers.”

Trying Order Left Language Reader Mets Complexes

Author:George Saunders

“It's much more interesting when you go to different places - make a left turn when nobody expects you to make a left turn, and make a right when nobody expects you to do that.”

Different Turns Left Interesting Different Place

Author:Kevin Spacey

“I will always enter a race car from the left side. Always. Why? I have no idea.”

Ideas Left Sides Race Car No Idea Race Car

Author:Mario Andretti

“Sanford is a little redneck town north of Orlando. It's right off Lake Jessup.Lake Jessup is the most alligator infested lake in the United States and I live literally 5/10ths of a mile north of that lake right off the swamp down here. I've lived here since '94. When I left Nebraska my dad got a job at a private Christian school in West Palm Beach. People will say "You're not really a country boy. You're from Palm Beach, Florida." Well, I moved to West Palm Beach, FL which is a far cry from Palm Beach, FL. There's a reason it's called West Palm Beach.”

“You have this great big fantasy life, and it looks like a non-stop 24/7 party. But what do you do when you get to the end of the Internet and there's nothing left to buy? There's just a picture of Wayne Newton flipping you off.”

Looks Ends Bigs Left Party Fantasy Internet Newton Wayne Non Stop Fantasy Life

Author:Charlie Sheen

“British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.”

Ifs World Humor Funny Left British Diplomatic

Book:The wit of Peter Ustinov

Source: The wit of Peter Ustinov

“I sketch the faces upside down because it's like drawing from the left side of the brain or the right side of the brain. I never took an art lesson in my life.”

Art Faces Left Sides Brain Lessons Drawing Upside Down

Author:Stevie Nicks

“I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think. As I worked, physical and mental fatigue set in and I was unable to operate to the maximum of my intellectual ability. But in a single cell in prison, I had time to think. I had a clear view of my past and present, and I found that my past left much to be desired, both in regard to my relations with other humans and in developing personal worth.”

“I do miss the people in the audience and the fun: "I came with my mother! And this is my mother!" I miss that. I miss: "My cousin and I came all the way from...." I miss that. I don't miss this - who is left to interview?”

People Way Mother Left Fun Audience Missing Interviews Cousin My Cousin

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her; she would infect to the north star. I would not marry her, though she were endowed with all that Adam bad left him before he transgressed.”

Ifs Left Speak Stars Terrible Anger Breaths Adam Termination North Star

Author:William Shakespeare

“Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.”

Art Death Artist Left Danger Honor Degrees Performances Fighter Afternoon Brilliance Bullfighting

Book:Death in the Afternoon

Source: Death in the Afternoon

“The place that I love most is the stillness. It's not that the stillness is lost when I talk or when I teach because the words arise out of the stillness. But when people leave me, there is only the stillness left. And I love that so much.”

People Lost Left Teach Arise Stillness Leaving Me

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no spiritual teacher left.”

Happens Spiritual Courses Left Teacher Teaching Identity Function Spiritual Teachers

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The world changed, and the idea of having a family became feasible for homosexuals. But I was still left with the question as to what it would be like for a child to grow up with gay parents.”

World Children Stills Ideas Would Be Left Grows Parent Growing Up Changed Gay Homosexual Gay Parents

Author:Andrew Solomon

“Some people thought that if you put pressure on kids, parents, and teachers and schools, the pressure alone would produce results. It appealed to people who think the quick fix for education is to threaten people. It's not a left-right division.”

People Ifs Thinking Kids School Left Parent Results Teacher Produce Pressure Division Parents And Teachers Quick Fixes

Author:Deborah Meier

“I have on the one hand a hatred and on the other a yearning for Vienna. I left when I was nine years old because I was Jewish. And even before 1938, the anti-Semitism in Austria was probably deeper than it was in Germany or in other European countries.”

Years Country Hands Left Hatred Deeper Nine Germany Yearning Nine Years Anti Semitism European Countries Vienna Austria

Author:Eric Kandel

“I want a book to contain a world - indeed the world. Writing is my main means of engagement with the world and I want the scars of that engagement to be left in the language.”

World Want Writing Mean Book Left Language Engagement Scar

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“When I left home, my mum said "Don't forget to write", I thought, "That's unlikely"... It's a basic skill isn't it.”

Writing Said Home Humor Funny Left Forget Skills Mum Unlikely

Author:Tim Vine

“I did a lot of thinking, and used mental activity to relieve whatever feelings I had. I became very left-brained, and I was good in school. That is, I was a smart kid.”

Thinking Feelings Kids School Used Left Activity Smart Smart Kid

Author:George Carlin

“The fact that I didn't finish school left me with a lifelong need to prove that I'm smart, prove it to myself, maybe to the world. I [also] needed to be - not the center of attention - but I needed to be able to attract attention when I wanted it, through my stunts and my fooling around physically with faces or postures or voices I would do. Those things are important elements in the drive behind all of this [my career].”

World Needs Important Facts Able Wanted School Faces Left Voice Behinds Attention Careers Needed Prove Elements Smart Lifelong Posture Prove It Fooling Around Center Of Attention

Author:George Carlin

“I use the [vulgar] words because apparently these words do not corrupt morally. I'm from the street in New York, hung around in a tough neighborhood. It was common to curse, you make your point. It's a very effective language. I try not to overdo it. It's never to shock. I know where it fits, it's never to shock. There's no shock value left in words.”

Knows Trying Use Values Left Language Common Streets New York Fit Tough Curse Shock Neighborhood Hung Vulgar Shock Value

Author:George Carlin

“I am not a politician. I have often been approached in this regard, but I have always declined these sorts of offers. I view myself as an independent, critical intellectual, as someone who tries to stimulate thought on the left and the right, to encourage intellectual evolution.”

Trying Left Views Evolution Politician Offers Intellectual Regard Independent Critical

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war; any war has to be a moral crusade.”

War Government Left Moral Crusades

Author:Richard Rorty

“Individuals who could not form cooperative alliances, on average, died sooner and left fewer children. And so we are the descendants of the successful cooperators.”

Children Form Individual Left Successful Died Average Fewer Alliances Descendants Cooperatives

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“My mother actually left American in 1929 to be part of an alternative community of bohemians around her then father-in-law who was a well-known Greek poet. This group of people were living in this semi-Luddite reality and weaving their own clothes - proto-hippies in a way- -but around an artistic vision.”

People Way Wells Reality Law Mother Father Left Community Known Vision Groups Poet Clothes Artistic Alternatives Greek Well Known Hippie In-laws Weaving Artistic Vision Father In Law

Author:Anne Waldman

“The skaters a lot of times do their own hair and makeup before they compete. That was always kind of a ritual...that calming, quiet time where you can just do your hair and makeup. And then I would always lace up my right skate before my left one.”

Kind Left Hair Quiet Makeup Ritual Skates Lace Calming Skater Quiet Time Hair And Makeup

Author:Kristi Yamaguchi

“Like any classic you hope to get rid of all the varnish that's built up over the centuries where people expect it to be in a certain way. It's a mighty play. It's about a very old king who also happens to be a very old father, so you've got the state and the domestic levels in there together. It's a story in extremis. Everyone knows the end, there's only two people left alive.”

People Knows Way Two Ends States Play Stories Happens Together Certain Father Left Levels Alive Century Kings Built Classic

Author:Geoffrey Rush

“I've never not finished a masturbatory session or a pizza. Those are the two things I've never left behind.”

Two Humor Funny Left Behinds Finished Two Things Left Behind Session Pizza

Author:Adam Carolla

“This guy from L.A. sits down next to me, and he says "you like baseball?" I said, "Oh, man, I love baseball." So he goes "Did you know that if Jesus had played ball, he'd have been the greatest ball player ever?" Like I'm gonna argue with that logic. So I sat there for a second, and then I said "did you know that if Babe Ruth had been the Messiah, the Catholics would have beer and hot dogs at Communion?" He left.”

“I felt as out of place as a left-handed violinist in a crowded string section.”

Humor Funny Left Felt Strings Sections Crowded Violinist Left Handed

Author:Chic Murray

“And finally, and most importantly, the next time we go to war, don't give a specific reason for the war that the left can seize upon and later flog us with it ad nauseam, just do it. Remember, the first rule of Fight Club is that you don't talk about Fight Club.”

Giving Firsts War Reason Humor Funny Remember Fighting Next Left Clubs Ads Next Time Just Do It

Author:Dennis Miller

“The person they're working with, is going to be the person they'll know more. So if that person leaves, they're going to go - well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.”

Ifs Knows Should Wells Persons Doe Left Deals Should Have Management Compare

Author:Ben Horowitz

“When I look around me, I see mostly women who are alone, left by their husbands after their kids grew up, for a younger woman, which is the most common thing, or suddenly abandoned after getting married and left with young children.”

Looks Children Kids Young Left Common Grew Husband Married Grew Up Abandoned Getting Married Young Children Common Things

Author:Dacia Maraini

“I'm concerned about the overuse of spectacular places. And there's no real wilderness left and so there's a heartbreak there. You can go anywhere and be rescued through your cell phone and have some helicopter drop down.”

Real Left Concerned Phones Cells Wilderness Spectacular Cell Phone Helicopters

Author:Anne Waldman

“I just got in music because it was a hobby. I got into clubs for free, got to drink for free and left with the hottest girl from the night. I never dreamed it would be for me to go on this kind of ride at all.”

Kind Would Be Night Girl Left Goes On Drink Music Is Clubs Hobbies Hottest

Author:Shaggy

“Critical Race Theory offers of discrimination frameworks as ways of understanding and eradicating racism. The focus on "discrimination" as the way to understand racism in the US has meant that racism is considered a question of discriminatory intentions - whether or not somebody intentionally left someone out or did something harmful because of their biased feelings about a person's race. This focus on individual racists with bad ideas hides the reality that racism exists wherever conditions of racialized maldistribution exist.”

Way Persons Ideas Feelings Reality Individual Left Understanding Race Focus Conditions Theory Offers Racism Intention Critical Discrimination Racist Framework Bad Ideas Biased

Author:Dean Spade

“When you sleep your eyes move left and right and physical movement takes trauma and moves it from your frontal lobe to the back of your brain or to another part of the brain where you can store it that memory but when you think about those things that happened, you don't associate the feeling that normally comes with it. So the problem is if you have something traumatic happen and you are not getting a good amount of rest, it will stay in your frontal lobe.”

Ifs Thinking Feelings Problem Happens Eye Moving Left Memories Sleep Brain Happened Movement Amount Trauma Stores Associates Left And Right

Author:Matty Mullins

“Under theocracies and other authoritarian regimes, the rulers are the moral authorities. Under genuine democracy some basic values are entrenched in the legal system, which is expected to be under democratic vigilance, and others are left to the person or the group, which ideally debate moral problems in a rational, free and cooperative manner.”

Persons Problem Values Left Moral Democracy Groups Authority Democratic Expected Debate Genuine Rational Regimes Rulers Vigilance Cooperatives Legal System Theocracy Moral Authority

Author:Mario Bunge

“After college I picked my races to be one race every two weeks. That gave me time to recover. I raced just as fast as my legs would carry me. At the end of every race there was nothing left. I walked off the track completely spent!”

Two Ends Left Race Week College Track Legs Two Weeks

Author:Gerry Lindgren

“My life in Greece influenced what I am. My father was in the left because he was against the king and his family, who had created a war against the Turks at the beginning of the last century to revive the Byzantine Empire. For three years, there was fighting, and all my father's friends died. So he hated the royal family.”

Years War Lasts Fighting Three Father Left Century Kings Died Hated Empires Three Years Royal Greece Revive Royal Family Byzantine Friend Died

Author:Costa-Gavras

“I'm pretty down to earth, I always have been and though I am on a much different path than most 25 year olds, I feel like I have a bit of a double life. We will go on tour for weeks at a time, but when I come home, I feel like I am picking up where I left off.”

Feels Years Has Beens Different Home Earth Left Bits Path Week Goes On Coming Home Down To Earth Different Paths Double Life

Author:Tristan Prettyman

“When you try to put everything into music, there's no room left to try to make you think we're cool. We know you think we're cool.”

Thinking Knows Trying Left Rooms Make You Think

Author:Joshua Homme

“The job has left me with a healthy disregard for what you might call Public Life. I have no desire now to go to receptions, to be seen at gatherings of the great and the good, to stand and be bored to death by men in grey suits.”

Men Might Jobs Desire Left Healthy Suits Bored Grey Gathering Public Life Disregard Reception Bored To Death

Author:Michael Longley

“Yogi's been an inspiration to me, not only because of his baseball skills, but of course for the enduring mark he left on the English language. Some in the press corps think he might even be my speechwriter.”

Thinking Inspiration Might Courses Left Language Skills Baseball Mark Presses Endure English Language Yogi

Author:George H. W. Bush

“I left the government because I saw the only way to get family planning moving, was to do it outside the government. I was never disillusioned with government.”

Way Government Moving Left Saws Planning Disillusioned Family Planning

Author:Mechai Viravaidya

“It seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to our future generation.”

Problem Seems Left Clear Generations Climate Climate Change Our Future Future Generation

Author:Pope Francis

“An annual or frequent choice of Magistrates, who in a year, or in a few years, are again left upon a level with their neighbors, is most likely to prevent usurpation and tyranny ... If rulers know that they shall in short period of time, be again out of power, and ... may be liable to be called to account for misconduct, it will guard them against maladministration.”

Ifs Knows Years May Political Choices Politics Left Levels Periods Accounts Neighbor Tyranny Rulers Liable Annuals Magistrates Usurpation Misconduct

Author:Clinton Rossiter

“The real magic in National Geographic isn't how much money they have left at the end of the year. It's the fact that through their overall focus they are reaching hundreds of millions of people and educating people about the world. It just happens to be done in a business-oriented kind of way that is more sustainable.”

People World Way Years Kind Real Ends Done Facts Happens Left Business Millions Focus Magic Reaching National Geographic

Author:Steve Case

“I thought all I had to do was to buy a camera and become a film director. So when I left school I worked at a telephone company, which gave me the money to buy the basic equipment including the camera, the projector and the screen.”

School Film Left Company Directors Cameras Including Screens Equipment Telephones Film Directors Projectors

Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet

“My father's death took me to a place I had never been and a place I had never left. In his absence, I've had to rely more on myself.”

Father Left Absence Rely

Author:Gustavo Perez Firmat

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