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Racism isn’t born, folks, it’s taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.
Make a list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society.
I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. … Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.
When you make a to-do list, you should also make a to-not-do list. Warren Buffet was asked about the secret to success, and he said that it was saying no to almost everything. Some of those little tasks won’t matter as long as you get the big tasks done.
In America you’re conditioned to regard everything as a contest. You have to make the Ten Best Dressed List, win this, win that. It drives me nuts sometimes. Who cares, for Christ’s sake?
The US has attacked countries like Grenada, Panama, Libya… the list of victims of US terrorism is almost infinite. And the US government’s participation in torture, whether in El Salvador, Guatemala, Chile… is well-documented and widely known.
I myself, from the very beginning, Seemed to myself like someone’s dream or delirium Or a reflection in someone else’s mirror, Without flesh, without meaning, without a name. Already I knew the list of crimes That I was destined to commit.
I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.
Beautiful songs could sometimes take a person out of themselves and carry them away to a place of magic. But when Jill sang, it was not about the song, really. She could sing the phone book. She could sing a shopping list. Whatever she sang, whatever the words or the tune, it was so beautiful, so achingly lovely, that no one could listen and be untouched.
My main ambition in life is to be on the Devil’s most wanted list.
The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].
I romanticized domesticity for a while, and loved having a shopping list of groceries stuck to the fridge for the first time.
When you’re just an actor, maybe not the top of the list guys, you get constant rejection and it’s fun.
My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.
I’m more of a tomboy than anything and then you see your name on these Top 50 Most Beautiful People lists and you’re like, ‘What?’
The problem with saying yes all the time is that it won’t make you Wonder Woman. It’ll make you a worn-out woman. And soon you’ll find the relationships you treasure most are constantly getting your ‘less’ instead of your ‘best’ because of your endless to-do list and overwhelming schedule.
I had a history for starting something and maybe getting halfway done. Then I’d see the same thing I was doing on the bestseller list! My ideas were right, but I hadn’t done them fast enough.
After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with expensive names.
Children’s liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.
When I got my very first phone call that I’d hit the ‘New York Times’ list, I had a small rush of ‘I’ve made it!’ But the next morning, it occurred to me I didn’t know what it was, so I called my agent and asked what being a ‘New York Times’ bestselling author really meant. He informed me that I was now a thousand pound gorilla.
Before writing, I start with a series of questions, specific things I need to know before I can write the book… That list grows and changes as I do more and more research. But when I’ve answered the bulk of the questions, I begin to write.
When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spend, but I did have a very specific list of things I wanted to do: buy cookies and sit on the furniture at Sears.
I’m going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money-winners list.
I had made a list of about ten things that I remembered from the original ‘Total Recall’ before I went back and watched. It had been about twenty years. I wanted to write it out before I watched it again. And I felt if those things stayed with me long enough, those are the things that I wanted to highlight.
I don’t know if this is too weird to say, but this is completely surreal for me. Bizarre. The cover of ‘Teen Vogue’ has been on my bucket list forever.
Most of us, if we are truly honest with ourselves, have an ever-evolving and ever-growing list of what we think we must change in order to be at peace or to be happy.
If I were gay, you know. I think Woody Allen is one of a long list of men I might go gay for.
I used to prefer cash but I’m more and more drawn to cards because with certain cards you get the full lists which you can then pass on to your accountant so you don’t have to do the whole receipt, receipt, receipt thing as it’s all itemised.
If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.
Rudy Giuliani is on the list [of Secretary of State ] not because of competence, not because of foreign policy experience, he`s on most entirely because of loyalty to Donald Trump.
Music licensing is a strange business to navigate, and all kinds of little things can drive a price up or down. It’s completely fluid, it constantly changes, and there’s no list of prices on a menu. Everything is negotiable in every way.
My life is not about the set list, it is to be set apart.
Don’t settle for anybody just to have someone. Set your standards. What kind of love do you want to attract? List the qualities you really want in the relationship. Develop those qualities in yourself and you will attract a person who has them.
I made a list of things I have to remember and a list of things I want to forget, but I see they are the same list.
I usually make to-do lists with timelines, and pen and paper does the trick for me.