David Letterman Quotes
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I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
Gabrielle Aplin -
I've played a lot of characters who are creeps or weirdos, with a deep darkness underneath the surface.
Zach Woods -
When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.
Sam Yagan -
What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
A. A. Milne -
I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.
Nathan Hale -
A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
Abraham Polonsky
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The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness - and sometimes sadness - of things we see every day.
Rachel Sklar -
Here's something I probably shouldn't be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums because I can't stand it. It's just stereo. When I write, I write in surround. My life is in surround.
Hans Zimmer -
If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.
Adam Hamilton -
It's always good when you can bring two artists together who are totally different.
Fantasia Barrino -
Once I was walking from The Mercer in New York - because otherwise I don't walk anywhere - and this woman paparazzo who was following me fell over a fire hydrant and her whole tooth went through her lip. I leant over her, saying, 'Are you all right?' and she was still taking pictures.
Kate Moss -
People want to know that I'm a person of conviction.
Karen Handel
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Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.
Dan Brown -
Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country.
Karl Philipp Moritz -
The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.
Carl Jung -
I haven't been like, 'Is there a sword in that movie? All right, I'll do it!'
Orlando Bloom -
Oh, who would choose to be a traveler? -That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in chaperoning trunks;Who stands in line at gates and wicketsTo spend his means on costly ticketsTo Irkutsk, Liverpool and YapAnd other dots upon the map.
Arthur Guiterman -
117: It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and, learning to be self-critical?
Alan Perlis
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Aristocracy is always cruel.
Wendell Phillips -
People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.
Edward P. Jones -
I think my mom is the inspiration of me wanting to do film and TV and be an actor because she loved film so much. She loved, like, horror films and action films, so growing up, she loved watching all the Charles Bronson films and all the westerns.
Rick Gonzalez -
What is this, Vassar?!
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