J. L. Austin Quotes
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
Wallace Shawn -
Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
Walter Gilbert -
I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
Kate Moss -
Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
Wayne Rooney -
People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
Ja Rule
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
Ted Shackelford -
Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
Jack Prelutsky -
I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible, killer songs that also are hits, or I just don't have a chance.
Dan Hill -
When you're young, you're stupid.
Wendy Hiller -
To read too many books is harmful.
Mao Zedong -
I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.
Laura Mvula
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.
Dana Spiotta -
I don't think the elite class is only speaking the good English.
Mamata Banerjee -
Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.
Walter Dean Myers -
We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
Viktor Orban -
Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.
Carine Roitfeld
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I'm not extravagant. I share my house in London with five roommates. I take the Tube. I intend to stay the exact same person I always was.
Margot Robbie -
Being a child star is great. It's being a former child star that sucks.
Danny Bonaduce -
God, send me an angel from the heavens above. Send me an angel to heal my broken heart from being in love, 'cause all I do is cry. God, send me an angel to wipe the tears from my eyes.
Amanda Perez -
Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.
Paul Wellstone -
Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
J. L. Austin