Christopher Morley Quotes
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Nothing is unfilmable.
Salman Rushdie -
What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
Yahya Jammeh -
Humans don't 'need' math-based cryptocurrencies when dealing with other humans. We walk slowly, talk slowly, and buy big things. Credit cards, cash, wires, checks - the world seems fine.
Naval Ravikant -
I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
Nathan Fielder -
When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
Laura Harring -
My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
J. Michael Straczynski
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
Caity Lotz -
If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
S. Truett Cathy -
What's amazing is that the Web enables you to build a kind of channel that wouldn't have made sense for cable, in the same way cable enabled you to build content that wouldn't have made sense for broadcast. You couldn't have done CNN with the broadcast networks; you couldn't have done MTV with the broadcast networks.
Salar Kamangar -
I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
Nate Berkus -
I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
Taylor Swift -
I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
Cameron Diaz
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
Victor Cruz -
My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
Edmund Phelps -
Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
Nathan Myhrvold -
Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
Wellington Mara -
I've always been into dressing nicely. My dad's really into fashion, also. We'll always go out and buy stuff. He has his own style and I have my own style, but it's a shared thing. Same thing with my grandfather; he was really into his style, so it's just sort of been passed down, I think.
Patrick Schwarzenegger -
People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
Tamer Hassan
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There are two great fundamental problems common to all thought: (i) the problem of world- and life-affirmation and world- and life-negation, and (2) the problem of ethics and the relations between ethics and these two forms of man's spiritual attitude to Being.
Albert Schweitzer -
Initially, the laser was called an invention looking for a job.
G. Harry Stine -
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
M. Scott Peck -
It's really not a good idea to forecast or double guess the fates; you will always be fooled.
Iman -
To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.
W. S. Gilbert -
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
Christopher Morley