Bessie Smith Quotes
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
Gary Hamel -
Everybody thinks they deserve something.
Wayne Rogers -
There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.
Damian Lewis -
I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
Taylor Swift -
A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
Han Fei
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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
Walter Benjamin -
I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'
Jacob Artist -
Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.
Iris DeMent -
I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.
Paddy Ashdown -
The bad boy: always more fun.
Ian McShane -
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Edmund Burke
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I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off.
Rachel McAdams -
I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.
Umberto Eco -
I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
Patricia Highsmith -
Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Habit is a great deadener.
Samuel Beckett -
I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.
Quinn Shephard
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I think I'm a fairly average person, I think I have only a medium IQ. I didn't go to college, obviously.
Helen Gurley Brown -
If I buy a Fiat Uno, I'll read that, for a man like me, a Ferrari was more suitable. If instead I buy a Ferrari, they'll write that I should have kept my feet on the ground and bought a Fiat. If I smile, I'm not serious. If I don't smile, I'm a rich sulker that doesn't enjoy having the most beautiful job in the world.
Mario Balotelli -
The creative process is also the most terrifying part because you don't know exactly what's going to happen or where it is going to lead. You don't know what new dangers and challenges you'll find. It takes an enormous amount of internal security to begin with the spirit of adventure, discovery, and creativity. Without doubt, you have to leave the comfort zone of base camp and confront an entirely new and unknown wilderness.
Stephen Covey -
It's funny how you can go from hating a girl to maybe liking her, maybe liking her a lot, just because she shows a little interest in you.
Louis Sachar -
I tend to lean more towards the Westerns of the 40s and 50s as opposed to the 60s and 70s. They get a little too drab for me when you get into the Spaghetti Western era. I love the John Ford movies. I love the music. I love the scope.
Seth MacFarlane -
I need a little sugar in my bowl and a little hot dog in my roll.
Bessie Smith