Bhumibol Adulyadej Quotes

When I was young, we had nothing. The carpets and upholstery in the palace were full of holes. The floors creaked. Everything was so old. Yes, we had a piano, an upright given to us by the Fine Arts Department. But it was out of tune.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

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• Each is responsible for his own actions.

  

  H. L. Hunt
  • Own
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• Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Kind
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• I was an independent developer and started Junction Point in January of 2005.

  

  Warren Spector
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• I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made it mean what I wanted it to mean.

  

  Usher
  • Father
  • Myself
  • Child

• I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.

  

  Paddy Considine
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• When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water, we begin to realise that the molecular scattering of light in liquids may possess an astronomical significance, in fact contribute in an important degree to the observed albedo of the earth.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Important
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• I didn't see myself as any advance guard, or feminist.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Myself
  • See
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• Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Imagination
  • Learn
  • See

• We've seen many heroes from Jamaica, you know, and to be put in that class or to be looked upon on that level is overwhelming. It's pretty big shoes to fill, you know. I'm a size eight, but I'll try my best.

  

  OMI
  • Pretty
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• My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.'

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Window
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  • Once

• Though not a true cereal but a fruit, buckwheat seeds resemble cereal grains and are often used in a similar way to rice, barley, bulgar or quinoa, usually as a side dish.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • True
  • Way
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• I'm here to say all lives matter.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Matter
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• We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death's valley.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Death
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• It is not to benefit CBS, not to benefit its reporters. On this one, the entire basis of it is this is a way to get more information, more important information to the public. And that's why so many states recognize this.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Important
  • Why
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• I was a very unique child.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Child
  • Unique
  • Very

• On my graduation there was a party by the junior students, and I was given a hair brush as a gift - if I take off my hat, you know what I mean.(laughter)

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Party
  • Hair
  • Laughter

• A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Truth
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• The very pink of perfection.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Pink

• When people see my makeup, they think all types of crazy things that I'm doing to my skin, but it's makeup. It's the weirdest thing. They'll see contouring and think you had surgery on your nose. No. No. No. Look at 'RuPaul's Drag Race' and you'll see... you can make your nose look... what ever shape you want it.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Thinking
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• History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not depend on it. That men would die was a matter of necessity; WHICH men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance. But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Children
  • War
  • Justice

• People don't understand how much time and work it takes to make somebody laugh, and how hard it is to write a script, to put together the story, the characters. When everyone laughs simultaneously, there's no greater feeling.

  

  Marlon Wayans
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I really can't break away from wearing black and leather!

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Black
  • Away
  • Leather

• Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It's such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Experience
  • Energy
  • Peace

• When I was young, we had nothing. The carpets and upholstery in the palace were full of holes. The floors creaked. Everything was so old. Yes, we had a piano, an upright given to us by the Fine Arts Department. But it was out of tune.

  

  Bhumibol Adulyadej