Beth Orton Quotes
I'm coming into places with some people who just want to hear what I did before, with some people who want to hear me with a band, but I am just at the moment sticking to my guns and saying, 'You know what? I want you just to hear this for a minute. I want it to be in the context of me and a guitar.'Beth Orton
Quotes to Explore
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
Otto von Bismarck -
There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
Malcolm Wallop -
I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
Karen Bender -
Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
Sam Graves -
I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.
Naveen Jain -
I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
Youssou N'Dour
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Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?
Walter F. Mondale -
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
Samuel Butler -
In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
Gary Weiss -
I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
Nancy Gibbs -
Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
Dan Hill -
What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.
Radhanath Swami
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The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making things less complex, by finding innovative ways to make sustainability affordable, we can advance the notion that it is possible.
Yves Behar -
I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
Ted Lange -
The American dream is still to own your home.
Barry Sternlicht -
I've been around the bend in corporations.
Indra Nooyi -
I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
Sam Rockwell -
I see a New York that is once again the empire state.
Carl Paladino
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Poverty is a state of mind.
Rahul Gandhi -
We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.
Jerry Bridges -
It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
Frederick Buechner -
Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.
Marguerite Gardiner -
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Joseph Addison -
I'm coming into places with some people who just want to hear what I did before, with some people who want to hear me with a band, but I am just at the moment sticking to my guns and saying, 'You know what? I want you just to hear this for a minute. I want it to be in the context of me and a guitar.'
Beth Orton