Marquesita Plata Quotes & Sayings

I've been fortunate - I haven't had too many auditions. I slept with the right people. — Pamela Anderson

(The only time making a fist around the fork helps is when you want to stab someone because he's stealing your food. Now I know stabbing people is really rude, so I hold my fork in the grown-up way all the time, and I rely on discreet snarls to protect my dinner from predators.) — John Elder Robison

Suicide is absolute, and if you think you will survive by hiding who you really are, you are sadly misled: there is no such thing as partial or intermittent suicide. You can only survive if you - who you really are - do survive. — June Jordan

I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely. — Michel Houellebecq

Did this happen to all actors, this blurring of borders between performance and life? — Emily St. John Mandel

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. — John Kenneth Galbraith

I would want to get rid of the piracy. — Sheek Louch

I've loved you up one side of forever. Now I'm going to love you back down the other. — Tessa Bailey

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. — Stephen Vincent Benet

I just hope bluegrass entertainers take care of their music and take care of their fans. If you don't practice, the man next door who is practicing will beat you. — Bill Monroe

Be as radiant as the sun, as healing as the rain, as generous as a tree. — Michael Franti

Information is the currency of the Internet. As a medium, the Internet is brilliantly efficient at shifting information from the hands of those who have it into the hands of those who do not. Often, as in the case of term life insurance prices, the information existed but in a woefully scattered way. (In such instances, the Internet acts like a gigantic horseshoe magnet waved over an endless sea of haystacks, plucking the needle out of each one.) The Internet has accomplished what even the most fervent consumer advocates usually cannot: it has vastly shrunk the gap between the experts and the public. — Steven D. Levitt

How do you think poetry helps people? he'd ask, wanting the whole thing quantified so he could compare it to digging wells in the Peace Corps. — Paul Monette

The price of peace is to abandon greed and replace it with giving, so that none will be spiritually injured by having more than they need while others in the world still have less than they need. — Peace Pilgrim