Beverly Cleary Quotes
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My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.
Rainn Wilson -
Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
Gail Sheehy -
The alternative to independence is decline, because the relationship with the Spanish state is not good; everyone knows that.
Carles Puigdemont -
It's not about me, it's about my family. You don't answer questions for you, but for us. You learn to live beyond yourself.
Jaclyn Smith -
Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.
Jack Germond -
I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me, all those remarks.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.
Samuel Butler -
The popularity of leaders like Mandela was an invitation to counter-attack by the government. Mandela was banned from speaking, from attending gatherings, from leaving Johannesburg, from belonging to any organization.
Oliver Tambo -
A lion runs the fastest when he is hungry.
Salman Khan -
You shouldn't have one opinion when you're running and another when you're president.
Rand Paul -
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness.
Edgar Allan Poe -
In chess, we say that the player with the initiative is obliged to attack, otherwise the initiative will be lost and the counterattack will likely be decisive.
Garry Kasparov
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Παύροις γὰρ ἀνδρῶν ἐστι συγγενὲς τόδε,φίλον τὸν εὐτυχοῦντ' ἄνευ φθόνων σέβειν.
Aeschylus -
il Zénon savait fort bien qu'il n'existe aucun accommodement durable entre ceux qui cherchent, pèsent, dissèquent, et s'honorent d'être capables de penser demain autrement qu'aujourd'hui, et ceux qui croient ou affirment croire, et obligent sous peine de mort leurs semblables à en faire autant.
Marguerite Yourcenar -
Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.
Christopher Hitchens -
Never try to leap from a standstill.
Mason Cooley -
I believe that robots should only have faces if they truly need them.
Donald Norman -
I am learning the grammar of acting on the sets. And I am happy that way.
Ali Fazal
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You're living in a fantasy to think that music can actually change something.
Ed Kowalczyk -
Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.
James Wolcott -
I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big splash on the runway.
Oscar de la Renta -
'All the doctors that have examined you state that you appear to have no friends or family relationships and you are incapable of any sort of empathy. In short…you’re perfect for this job.'
John Twelve Hawks -
I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
Ha-Joon Chang -
I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.
Beverly Cleary