Kent Nerburn Quotes
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I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
Ralph Brown -
It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
Carl Reiner -
Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
R. W. Apple, Jr. -
I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
Abel Ferrara -
In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
P. J. O'Rourke -
If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.
Wayne Dyer
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
Patrick Henry -
I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
Magdalena Frackowiak -
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
Malcolm McDowell -
I love Canada. Canada is a great neighbour. Canada has been a great friend and neighbor for many, many years.
Sam Brownback -
You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
T. J. Miller
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Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.
Tadao Ando -
It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
Irwin Winkler -
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
Faith Baldwin -
In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
In effect, you cannot stop Iraq from growing nasty bugs in the basement. You can stop them from putting operational warheads on working missiles and launching them at their neighbors.
Barton Gellman -
Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.
Indra Devi
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We have brave hearts and won't retreat. We are not going back; we are going forward.
Cyril Ramaphosa -
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
M. H. Abrams -
My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along with me all through my life. Every elderly man has a bit of my father in him for me.
P. L. Travers -
She couldn't think of anyone else who remotely resembled him. He was complicated, almost contradictory in so many ways, yet simple, a strangely erotic combination. On the surface he was a country boy, home from war, and he probably saw himself in those terms. Yet there was so much more to him. Perhaps it was the poetry that made him different, or perhaps it was the values his father had instilled in him, growing up. Either way, he seemed to savor life more fully than others appeared to, and that was what had first attracted her to him.
Nicholas Sparks -
It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
Kent Nerburn