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The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault. Ty Cobb
To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or anti-Timbuktuan) is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination. An inability to see the world in terms other than those that the establishment has set out for you: If you're not a Bushie you're a Taliban. If you don't love us, you hate us. If you're not Good you're Evil. If you're not with us, you're with the terrorists. Arundhati Roy
Quentin Tarantino quote: "I'm an American, our names don't mean shit."
I'm an American, our names don't mean shit. Quentin Tarantino
I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters. Sylvester Stallone
John Osborne quote: "I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't..."
I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong. John Osborne
We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said...Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it. Hans-Georg Gadamer
Nite-Owl: Rorschach...? Rorschach, wait! Where are you going? This is too big to be hard-assed about! We have to compromise! Rorschach: No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise. Alan Moore
I'm fine," she said. But her smile was bleak, without light or warmth. And for the first time I thought of what it must be like to know that you were going to die, that the trees would bud, flower, leaf, dry, die, and you would not be there to see any of it. A. Whitney Brown
John Sununu quote: "I'm running for senator because it's time for a change."
I'm running for senator because it's time for a change. John Sununu
Simone de Beauvoir quote: "To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very..."
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. Simone de Beauvoir
Angela Carter quote: "He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on..."
He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive. Angela Carter
There's something honorable about holding out for love and not breaking up for the sake of the baby. I see people get divorced, and there is a part of me that thinks, I wonder how hard they tried? Judd Apatow
There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and that is what man is, churning and foam together. Simone Schwarz-Bart
The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning. Lewis Thomas
Leonard Cohen quote: "The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to..."
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. Leonard Cohen