Finley Peter Dunne Quotes
The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.Finley Peter Dunne
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Fashion and music have always played off each other and certainly do for me; I love both so much. But there are definitely those moments when you're playing the right song at the right time in the right place, and it feels like the best job in the world.
Harley Viera-Newton -
Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.
Tahar Rahim -
If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.
Najib Razak -
It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
Felicity Kendal -
I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
Nawal El Saadawi
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
Mahershala Ali -
Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
Oliver Joseph Lodge -
When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.
Oscar Robertson -
Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
Aaron Klein -
My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
Dan Brown -
Someone made me a Leaf Coneybear finger puppet. Someone made me a portrait of me on some chocolate. I'm keeping it. I daren't eat such a work of art. It's so unique and so fun that fans do that. It's incredibly flattering. I like it when people spend time on me. People don't spend the same amount of time on my brother who's an insurance broker.
Barrett Foa -
Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.
Haile Selassie -
I never lie to my fans.
Becky G -
People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
Cameron Crowe -
I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.
Young Buck
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I want my son - and my kids, if I have more - to grow up in a way that is as anonymous as possible. The fact that his father and I have chosen to do the work that we do doesn't give anybody the right to invade our privacy.
Penelope Cruz -
Gansey asked, 'Do you have time to run an errand with us? Do you have work? Homework?''No homework. I got suspended,' Blue replied.'Get the fuck out,' Ronan said, but with admiration. 'Sargent, you asshole.'Blue reluctantly allowed him to bump fists with her.
Maggie Stiefvater -
I write with my past, about the future, for the present.
Eyedea -
When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea.
Constance Baker Motley -
The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.
John Maeda -
The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
Finley Peter Dunne