V. S. Pritchett Quotes
The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.V. S. Pritchett
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I eat healthy and don't go by a diet chart. The breakfast is usually heavy, complemented with short frequent meals. My dinner is high on proteins and low on carbohydrates.
Vijender Singh -
So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
Walter Salles -
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.
B. F. Skinner -
Writers should provoke disagreement.
V. S. Naipaul -
In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
Warren Buffett
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
The purpose of a business is to create customers.
Sam Wyly -
In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
Karen Abbott -
Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
Harold Wilson -
I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
Gabrielle Aplin -
I feel like the word 'mom' and 'supermom' should be synonymous. When you are a mom, you are a superhero.
Vanessa Lachey
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
Eamon de Valera -
An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
Carl Maria von Weber -
People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times.
Malin Akerman -
I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'
Gabrielle Union -
The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.
Oscar Hammerstein II -
The magnificent cosmos is a palace that has the sun and the moon as its lamps and the stars as its candles; time is like a rope or ribbon hung within it, on to which the Glorious Creator each year threads a new world.
Said Nursi
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I met my boyfriend, a pro poker player, at a tournament. He tried to dissuade me because it's a seedy gritty world. Listen, I've played till 4 in the morning. I've played with a half million dollars on the table.
Jennifer Tilly -
There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.
Nelson Mandela -
I like to wake up late, around 11 A.M., especially if I have been out the night before. Then I go to brunch with either my friends or my girlfriend. I then like to just chill out: read the papers, read some scripts and then take it very easy. If it's sunny, I go for a walk with my dog, Niles, in the countryside.
Douglas Booth -
One of the strengths of the U.K. is its ability to attract very highly talented people from all over the places, but also their ability to send English people outside. So they're very brain circulation-oriented, and I do hope, even with Brexit, they will keep this asset they have.
Alain Dehaze -
The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.
V. S. Pritchett