- Nov 07, 2020
Like Quotes
Quotes on what people like and why.
These quotes explore liking something, or coming around to it later - one describes disliking Jane Austen before eventually appreciating her work, while another reflects on early interest in mathematics over computers. Related browsing includes Know Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.
- Guthrie
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- Nov 07, 2020
It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.
- World
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- Nov 07, 2020
Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 285 pounds, I was extremely strong, and it was all usable strength that I could direct against opponents, not like that of a weightlifter, whose feats of power are all restricted.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I use the computer as a tool. Like chance or the camera or the other tools I've used, it can open my eye to other ways of seeing or of making dances. It's not simply to do a trick.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that it looked like two.
- Nov 07, 2020
Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.
- Rather
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- Nov 07, 2020
Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous.
- Lights
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- Nov 07, 2020
Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The key to empowerment is no more complicated than what Jesse Jackson said, 'We are somebody.' But the 'We are somebody' I would like to be in the larger sense: not just the urban African-American but homo sapiens in general - We are somebody.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It must be horrible to do things that you don't like hoping to please other people, and they don't like it either, and you've got to eat it.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020