H. P. Lovecraft Quotes
The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.H. P. Lovecraft
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
Idris Elba -
Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Samuel Goldwyn -
My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
Barbra Streisand -
After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
Ingrid Betancourt -
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
Quintilian -
Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
Ed Oxenbould
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When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
E. W. Howe -
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
H. L. Mencken -
Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
Karl Jaspers -
I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
Yara Shahidi -
Microsoft makes numerous apps for both Android and iOS, as do Google, Amazon and Facebook. You can run iTunes and iCloud on Windows and Office on the Mac.
Walt Mossberg -
There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you.
Forest Whitaker
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
Ian MacKaye -
Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.
Karen O -
My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.
Jack Ma -
There is too much employer-employee relationship in America. I wish the musicians would feel that many decisions have to do with them and not delegate everything to management or to the board or to the committee. This is why you get a sense of pride in some of the European orchestras: because they are part of the decision-making.
Daniel Barenboim -
A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
Victor Hugo -
I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
Rachelle Lefevre
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Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.
Laura Osnes -
I am forever learning and changing.
W. Edwards Deming -
My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn't blow a note, so he suggested the guitar. Chromatic harmonica was actually my first instrument, and I got very good at it - not quite Stevie Wonder, but very good.
Pete Townshend The Who -
Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
Park Chan-wook -
The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
H. P. Lovecraft