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«Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Money,
Sex
| Keywords:
exactly, sex, turned, turned out
«I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| Keywords:
in order, job, order, slave, slaving, that is to say, turned
«I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.»
Author: Madonna
(Actress, Singer)
| About:
Celebrity,
Rebellion,
Traditional Values
| Keywords:
fashioned, old fashioned, rebel, turned, turned out, values
«I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
| About:
Foreigners
| Keywords:
abroad, backs, English, foreigner, foreigners, turned
«I turned to speak to God About the world's despair; But to make bad matters worse, I found God wasn't there»
Author: Robert Frost
| Keywords:
turned
«I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands»
Author: Seneca
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
demands, from time to time, needs, occasion, occasioned, on occasion, pages, ready, stick together, stored, stored up, storing, stuck, truths, turned, unpack, unpacking
«If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness»
«In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
accepted, at hand, govern, inevitable, materials, more or less, The Question, to advantage, turned, valid