Ayn Rand Quotes
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
Edmund White -
I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'
G. Willow Wilson -
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Napoleon Hill -
It's pretty funny, just driving by in a cab, and you see a huge billboard of yourself on the side of a hotel, like a 100-by-100 poster hanging up.
Patrick Kane -
I am not in politics to make more money.
Nandan Nilekani -
As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together.
Jack Ma
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
Ian Mckellen -
After 'Roe v. Wade' - when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 - I thought the national conversation about abortion and birth control would be over. It was not.
Karen DeCrow -
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
B. F. Skinner -
What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
Wayne Dyer -
With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.
Larry Holmes -
The only thing I liked about Christmas as a kid was the gifts; otherwise, it just seemed like a stressful time.
Lake Bell
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I appreciate the change associated with people's growth, but I don't like the changes in our lives. I came to Mumbai in 1945, so imagine my acceptance of the massive changes around. I have witnessed every kind of revolution.
Lata Mangeshkar -
We will have to be very vigilant that young female scientists have the same opportunities as their male colleagues.
Fabiola Gianotti -
My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.
Ian Hislop -
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
Oliver Goldsmith -
I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.
Pat Summitt -
When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas.
M. Ward
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The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.
Geezer Butler Black Sabbath -
I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.
Dawn French -
There's a weird contrast between my usual daily routine and then my book coming out. It's like someone's just suddenly opened the curtains in a dark room, and everyone's looking at you.
Lisa Jewell -
And my parents made me want i am. So what? We get stuff from our parents, but we also get stuff from the world around us. From people around us. And at the end of the day, we're us.
Barry Lyga -
Aside from some extra fiber, eating two slices of whole wheat bread is really little different, and often worse, than drinking a can of sugar-sweetened soda or eating a sugary candy bar.
William Davis -
'I am. I think. I will.'
Ayn Rand