David Leavitt Quotes
In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.David Leavitt
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
Baha'u'llah -
Stability cannot occur without a Palestinian Spring through the full implementation of the Palestinians' right to self-determination on their land.
Najib Mikati -
There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
Daniel Cormier
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
Jack Ma -
I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.
Carlos Pena, Jr. -
Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!
Orson F. Whitney -
Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
B. C. Forbes -
What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.
Adam Davidson -
Time is the devourer of all things.
Ovid
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
A. J. P. Taylor -
There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
Gaby Hoffmann -
My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
Dale T. Mortensen -
I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
Viggo Mortensen -
I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.
Kaley Cuoco
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Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.
Mahmoud Darwish -
Peu de généreux vont jusqu'à dédaigner,Après un sceptre acquis, la douceur de régner.
Pierre Corneille -
You don't want to be on a show that no one wants to see, and then think your phone is going to be ringing off the hook to do other jobs. I'm not tethered to the fact that my demise may be reached this season or next season, or whatever.
Isaiah Washington -
I love making apple strudel.
Lidia Bastianich -
Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the same means that brought them into being. Independent existence marks the work of art as a product of making; utter dependence upon further acts to keep it in existence marks the state as a product of action.
Hannah Arendt -
In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.
David Leavitt