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I now know my right from my left and my up from my down. Unluckily, my terrible sense of direction remains. For me, to live in New York City is to never be able to meet someone on the northeast corner. It is to never ever make a smooth entrance, always to get caught looking lost on the street.
Sloane Crosley

Live, Someone, Lost

I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back.
Sloane Crosley

Write, Vacation, Both

Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.
David R. Brower

Door, Once, Ourselves

I have a terrible temper. I have absolutely no problem with getting shouty or a bit physical. It's not something I'm pleased about and it doesn't happen very often, but it's very much there.
Michael Sheen

Happen, Problem, Often

Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is a terrible hysteria just waiting to burst out.
Michael Sheen

Waiting, Struggle, Acceptance

I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.
Alan Greenspan

Nature, Through, Easy

Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.
Len Wein

Time, God, Best

But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908.
Jeff Bezos

Hair, Stuff, Stage

There's every reason to believe there will be further attacks attempted against the United States. For us to spend so much time patting ourselves on the back because we got bin Laden that we miss the next attack would be a terrible tragedy.
Dick Cheney

Time, Reason, Against

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
Wallace Stevens

Life, Literature, Grows

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.
Joan Collins

Best, School, Acting

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
Jorge Luis Borges

Death, Ignorant, Except

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
Karl Kraus

Him, Vision, Walk

I mean, I felt terrible. And in the beginning, I mean, I was completely devastated. I mean, can you imagine the kind of guilt that you would feel, and the responsibility?
Monica Lewinsky

Mean, Beginning, Felt

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.
Jeremy Taylor

Great, Anger, Small

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
Jean Anouilh

Life, History, Live

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
Alberto Giacometti

Impossible, Picture, Works

I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.
Garry Kasparov

Against, Security, Actions

I'm a terrible interviewer. I'm not a journalist - although I have a Peabody Award - and I'm not really a late-night host. What I am is honest.
Craig Ferguson

Honest, Journalist, Host

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
Jean Kerr

Morning, Feeling, Healthy

There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say, 'Guys, I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one.
Jarvis Cocker

Famous, Depression, Write

The whole nuclear thing is a terrible mess and it's hard for me to understand why it is that we, the United States, seem to be the only ones that are really particularly concerned about it and prepared to do something.
Lawrence Eagleburger

Hard, Understand, Why

My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed life, thrust up to the elbows with it. He was a terrible father. I don't know that he was parented that well.
Carrie Fisher

Life, Father, Spirit

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.
Jessamyn West

Justice, Necessary

I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.
Sidney Sheldon

History, Integrity, Person

I know many beautiful people and their lives are just so terrible. They feel so uncomfortable with themselves. Being comfortable is not about what you look like, but how you feel.
Monica Bellucci

Beautiful, Themselves, Lives

When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love.
Monica Bellucci

Love, Work, Someone

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.
John C. Ransom

Religion, Art, Keep

It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't.
Maria Callas

Life, Rock, Thinking

My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.
David Guetta

Life, Fake, Parents

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