Elizabeth McGovern Quotes
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
Vernon Howard -
We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.
Ingmar Bergman -
If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
Idries Shah -
Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.
Umberto Eco -
My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
Finn Wittrock
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
Vince Cable -
I came up with a story and I wrote it.
E. L. James -
The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
Barton Gellman -
It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
Halldor Laxness -
God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many of which clash with the public interest.
Adam Cohen
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I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.
Sadie Frost -
No man may make another free.
Zora Neale Hurston -
I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
Lapo Elkann -
Very obsessed fans do ask actors to attend their weddings.
Warwick Davis -
I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'
Zac Brown Band -
I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
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I can remember my sister and me volunteering for Nixon. My parents liked him. I liked my parents. So I figured he was good.
Douglas McGrath -
Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
Guys usually like a very natural look. I think it's bad idea to wear a strong lip on a first date - or for the first few dates. I'm always too nervous he'll kiss it off - if I'm lucky enough to get a kiss! I also think soft, sexy hair is important.
Emmy Rossum -
I don't think too much about age. Maybe if you're hurting, aching and arthritic, then you think about it a lot. But I don't.
Bob Newhart -
The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is.
Elizabeth McGovern