Iris Murdoch Quotes
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I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.
Patrick Collison -
This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.
Abu Bakar Bashir -
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
E. Stanley Jones -
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
Hannah Arendt -
As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
Natalie Gulbis -
I've always kind of had an interest in the drums but nothing else. The drums are the only thing I feel I would be good at, because I'm a very physical person. I've always played sports and stuff. Drums would give me something to do.
Taylor Lautner
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People always tell me I'm going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?
Karl Pilkington -
Small aim is a crime.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Long-, medium- and short-grain rices differ in the amount and type of starch they have.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
Victoria Principal -
My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.
Adam Davidson -
I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.
Valeria Golino -
One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
Hal Holbrook -
Some people don't understand that I - as an artist and a person - I want to make my own decisions and create the music that I personally like.
Yandel Wisin & Yandel -
Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
What is sought can never produce the seeking.
B. F. Skinner
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I am in show business. I don't, for a minute, ever forget that this is a business that I'm involved in, and it plays by business' rules.
Harrison Ford -
I've done a lot of meditation studying on my own, but I've also taken a couple of transcendence classes.
Keke Palmer -
Keep your eyes open. Make mistakes - because you will anyway - and remember that small stuff stinks but that it's also essential.
Adam Sadowsky -
When you're an artist, you're generally working at home alone in a studio. It's just really good to get with other guys and make art something you can share.
Brian Stelfreeze -
I have nothing to teach you that will help you to make a living. as art teacher, advising his students
John French Sloan -
But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
Iris Murdoch