William Davenant (D'Avenant) Quotes
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
Laura Haddock -
At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.
M.I.A. -
The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.
Larry Wilmore -
Act because you love to act.
Mae Whitman -
But eventually it is a game of cricket.
Sachin Tendulkar -
The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.
Hank Johnson
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I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.
Ford Frick -
Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.
Walid Jumblatt -
I, personally, do not consider myself to be some kind of Holy Mary of feminism.
Zara Larsson -
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
Barbara Kingsolver -
I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.
Walter Cronkite -
An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
Carl Maria von Weber
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
Laura Wade -
I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
Natalie Cole -
I will run against anybody.
Usain Bolt -
If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
Mandy Patinkin -
Pioneer women were very tough - they had to be, because the men go off for long periods of time, and the women would have to be able to protect themselves and their homes.
Haley Bennett -
I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.
Oliver North
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Here I still flow in God as a small stream of time, There I shall be a sea of blessedness sublime
Angelus Silesius -
It was such a challenge to do. I had to deliver the city of New York!
Bob Wise -
Lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten.
Gerard Butler -
Want a good body? Work at it. Want to be a success? Work at it. Want to be truly exceptional? Be a touch insane... You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
I'm not saying everything in Sweden is perfect, because it's not. But it is interesting having grown up in a social democratic country such as Sweden and then watching what's going on in the U.S. and the income disparity.
Alexander Skarsgard -
Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
William Davenant