Oliver Sacks Quotes
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
Victoria Osteen -
It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
W. Somerset Maugham -
The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.
Valerie Plame -
I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
K. Flay -
Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
Cameron Diaz
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
Magnus Magnusson -
Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
Yayoi Kusama -
In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
Becky G -
There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
Malik Bendjelloul -
In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
Yanis Varoufakis -
My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
Mahershala Ali
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
Maika Monroe -
From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
Sachin Tendulkar -
I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
Zack Snyder -
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. Forster -
I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
Vanessa Marcil
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
Nadia Comaneci -
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
Charles Baudelaire -
You should have more time for you during all of your life - not when you're 65 and retired.
Carlos Slim -
I was lying in a burned out basementWith the full moon in my eyes.I was hoping for replacementWhen the sun burst through the sky.There was a band playing in my headAnd I felt like getting high.I was thinking about what aFriend had saidI was hoping it was a lie.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fadeand flee; And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky, Has awaked in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die.
William Butler Yeats -
I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
Oliver Sacks