Iain Sinclair Quotes
Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition.Iain Sinclair
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I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
Marc Almond Soft Cell -
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
Harold Coffin -
I'm more interested in producing than acting.
Lance Bass NSYNC -
Instead of personal security, citizens are afraid to walk down the street in Jerusalem.
Yair Lapid -
I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.
Kate Christensen
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The more questions and answers we get, the more useful Quora is.
Adam D'Angelo -
I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.
Rachel McAdams -
I've never really broken this down before, but, in movies, you almost have no connection to fans. And if you do TV, you're kind of connected, but they know you as the TV name not your real name. If you do radio, there's more of a bond there. And then if you do a podcast it's like you're literally inside of your fans.
Adam Carolla -
Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
DJ Premier, this guy is like a god, a walking god. Guru, he put it down legendary.
Fat Joe -
The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.
Caleb Cushing
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
P. J. O'Rourke -
What's my audience? British society. Am I received relatively well? Yes. Is there within that... if you break it down, challenges with Muslim communities? Of course there are.
Maajid Nawaz -
The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
Iris Murdoch -
Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.
Carlos Castaneda -
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza
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The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
Carl Clinton Van Doren -
I'd always wanted to do an R&B and soul record; a friend with a studio asked to come by and record a couple of songs, maybe just make a 45. Then the songs started to pour out, and pretty soon we had eight or 10 songs down.
Nathaniel Rateliff -
There's no job that will humble you like the White House press secretary job.
Dana Perino -
I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.
Edie Falco -
Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
Queen Victoria -
Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition.
Iain Sinclair