Gone Quotes - Page 35

• Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone.

  Jennifer Niven

  Writing, People, My Own

  Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.48, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Cornering is like bringing a woman to a climax. Both you and the car must work together. You start to enter the area of excitement at the corner, you set up a pace which is right for the car and after you've told it it is coming along with you, you guide it along at a rhythm which has by now become natural. Only after you've cleared the corner you can both take pleasure in knowing it's gone well.

  Jackie Stewart

  Knowing, Car, Working Together

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• You can't turn a bad girl good, but once a good girls' gone bad, she's gone forever.

  Jay-Z

  Girl, Forever, Turns

  Song: Here Without You, Album: HOV 3D

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• I had been with the label since I was 21. The label wanted shiny pop but I didn't. I found a little independent and we've got all these great reviews in England and now it has gone gold.

  Alison Moyet

  Independent, Gold, Littles

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• When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

  Mark Twain

  Numbers, People, Different

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 13, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• You can't save the rhinos and you can't preserve a culture. I'm very pessimistic. Once it's gone, it's over.

  Paul Theroux

  Rhinos, Culture, Pessimistic

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Tibet has a very proud people but it's culturally gone and overrun ever since the Chinese took over. It's like saving the rhino. When a species is endangered, it's gone.

  Paul Theroux

  Rhinos, People, Chinese

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Stand-up life is really hard. At one point, I got so paralyzed I could write five screenplays before I could write three jokes for stand-up. Later, I've finally allowed myself to relax quite a bit, to think I can do it because I've done it in the past. The pressure to come up with the material is the same but the anxiety about whether I can do it is gone.

  Steve Martin

  Writing, Past, Thinking

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• I know it sounds hard to believe, but habits laid down by our ancestors persist even after the conditions that created those habits have gone away.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Believe, Gone Away, Sound

  "Secrets of their success". Interview with Jennifer Reingold, archive.fortune.com. November 19, 2008.

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• Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.

  Toni Morrison

  Racism, People, Moments

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Any woman who wishes to be an intellectual, to write non-fiction, to deal with theory, faces a lot of discrimination coming her way and perhaps even self-doubt because there aren't that many who've gone before you. And I think that the most powerful tool we can have is to be clear about our intent. To know what it is we want to do rather than going into institutions thinking that the institution is going to frame for us.

  Bell Hooks

  Powerful, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Pierce Freelon, blackademics.org. October, 2006.

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• Most of what I want to try to do is continue to go places with fiction that I've never gone before, and tell stories I've never told before, and one of the problems you rapidly discover about fans is what fans want is the last thing they liked. They want more of that.

  Neil Gaiman

  Trying, Fans, Fiction

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• The Cloud Roads has wildly original worldbuilding, diverse and engaging characters, and a thrilling adventure plot. It's that rarest of fantasies: fresh and surprising, with a story that doesn't go where ten thousand others have gone before. I can't wait for my next chance to visit the Three Worlds!

  N.K. Jemisin

  Adventure, Character, Clouds

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• The kind of hope I'm talking about is the belief that something good will come. That everything you're going through and everything you've gone through will be worth the struggles and frustrations. The kind of hope I'm talking about is a deep belief that the world can be changed, that the impossible is possible.

  Ronda Rousey

  Struggle, Frustration, Talking

  Ronda Rousey (2015). “My Fight / Your Fight”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• The days of foot-in-the-door harassment and snatched photos are gone.

  Rebecca

  Doors, Feet, Harassment

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• Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next Gone With the Wind.

  Karin Slaughter

  Writing, Wind, Southern

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• I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time.

  Johnny Ramistella

  Eight, Months, Seven

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• Profit margins are probably the most mean-reverting series in finance, and if profit margins do not mean-revert, then something has gone badly wrong with capitalism. If high profits do not attract competition, there is something wrong with the system and it is not functioning properly.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Mean, Competition, Profit Margin

  "Warren Buffett And Jeremy Grantham Are Right About Profit Margins" by Baijnath Ramraika and Prashant Trivedi, www.advisorperspectives.com. November 11, 2014.

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• Your brain develops depending on your individual history. What has gone on in your own brain and its consciousness over your lifetime is not repeatable, ever - not with identical twins, not even with conjoined twins.

  Gerald Edelman

  Over You, Brain, Twins

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• I always like to look for adventure when I go away. I have gone on several horse adventures with my wife - from Guangxi we went up to the High Tibetan region. We also went along the Hurunui River on horseback in the South Island of New Zealand.

  Antony Gormley

  Horse, Adventure, Rivers

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• I know there's a consciousness energy that operates completely independent of the physical body you inhabit, that maintains... awareness after the body's gone.

  Phoebe Snow

  Independent, Energy, Body

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• Whenever somebody tells me they want me to stop singing, I'm gone.

  Mavis Staples

  Singing, Want, Want Me

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• Those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world.

  Dean Koontz

  Revenge, Long, People

  Dean Koontz (2013). “Deeply Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.263, Bantam

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• I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.

  Yolanda Adams

  Thinking, Grandparent, Missing

  "Gospel Singer Yolanda Adams, 'Day by Day'". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. August 30, 2005.

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• I think that there are few people in one's life that you never really feel that they're gone. I have to remind myself that she isn't around.

  Blake Edwards

  Thinking, People, Feels

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