Daniel Tammet Quotes
I was desperate for a friend, and I used to lie in bed at night thinking about what it would be like. My younger brothers and sisters had friends, and I used to watch them playing to try to work out what they did and how friendship worked.Daniel Tammet
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Laura Lang -
Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
T-Pain -
Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
Karen Elson -
Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
Gary Sherman -
I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
Gale Harold -
I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
Zendaya
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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
Naomi Wolf -
Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.
Eduard Hanslick -
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot -
I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
Gary Hamel -
I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.
Yasmine Al Masri -
I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
Gaby Hoffmann
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It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.
Caitlyn Jenner -
I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
Madhur Bhandarkar -
A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
Vince Vaughn
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Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.
Brian Tracy -
It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
If my assistant goes off and becomes successful, and people want to work with him, I'd take that as a compliment that I'd trained them well.
Brad Goreski -
Stanford's an amazing, amazing school. It was an extraordinary soccer program.
Christen Press -
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
Oscar Wilde -
I was desperate for a friend, and I used to lie in bed at night thinking about what it would be like. My younger brothers and sisters had friends, and I used to watch them playing to try to work out what they did and how friendship worked.
Daniel Tammet