David O. Selznick Quotes
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As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
Ian Anderson -
One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.
Florynce Kennedy -
I can clap with one hand.
Aaron Tveit -
At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.
Walter Mosley -
I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.
Rainn Wilson
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I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.
Rabih Alameddine -
When Californians see something we truly believe in, we say so and act accordingly - without evasiveness or equivocation.
Gavin Newsom -
It is important to stress: Africa is also a victim of the September 11 attacks.
Omar Bongo -
You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln -
People want development. Not everyone knows what it means. Same as jobs. Not everyone knows what a job is, but people want jobs.
Adam Giles
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
Tacitus -
I'm interested in how we react when we're heavily pressed. When we're vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave?
Paolo Bacigalupi -
I believe in God and not religion, because I believe religion is the double cross. Because I've been double crossed by three religions, so I think I can safely say that religion - there is maybe something wrong with religion. Every temple that's put up may not be a holy one, so watch out.
Ja Rule -
It is better to look good than to feel good.
Fernando Lamas -
In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
Lao Tzu -
I am very superstitious about toasts. I never toast with water, and I'm very careful to make eye contact with everyone I toast with.
Maggie Grace
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Donald Trump is going to be tainted by scandal. Congress hangs by just three Republican votes. If he loses three Republicans, you're going to see investigations, subpoenas.
Norman L. Eisen -
If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
P. J. O'Rourke -
How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true; integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth.
Lao Tzu -
The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.
Vikas Swarup -
If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail.
David O. Selznick