Mark Twain Quotes
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
Nancy Sinatra -
There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
Edmund White -
The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.
Tariq Ramadan -
I want audiences to see me in different avatars.
Ram Charan -
I've actually done a lot of comedy.
Natalie Zea -
When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
Oliver North
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
G. M. Trevelyan -
No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
H. P. Lovecraft -
'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
Salman Rushdie -
The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
Illinois Jacquet -
Well, softness and femininity like yours people don't expect of me; so when they find me emotional and capable of real vulnerability, they're surprised.
Faye Dunaway -
Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward.
Jack Layton
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I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.
Rand Paul -
When you do well in a movie that's seen as really great, you're revitalized for six weeks.
Hank Azaria -
Demolishing pretensions, especially worthy ones, is a hallmark of the baby boom.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
Paloma Faith -
I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
Karl Urban -
Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.
Rachel Griffiths
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I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. Like genius, she is ignorant of what she does.
Jeanette Winterson -
To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
W. Clement Stone -
But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
Albert Camus -
He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.
Owen Feltham -
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Mark Twain