Billy Collins Quotes
One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.Billy Collins
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I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity.
Natasha Calis -
'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.
Vicki Lawrence -
When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
Hannibal Buress -
I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.
Jack Wagner -
You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
Oliver Reed -
This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
Inbee Park
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One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.
Jack Canfield -
I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
Dakota Fanning -
Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
Natalie Portman -
I came out of what we romance writers call The Romance Ghetto, because we get so little respect.
Karen Robards -
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Dale Carnegie -
For me personally, the technology that has taken the most unexpected turn in my lifetime is what I refer to as 'the device formerly known as the cell phone.' I still remember many predictions that by 2000 there would only be about a million cell phone users. Boy, were they ever wrong!
Padmasree Warrior
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
Van Morrison -
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt -
Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.
Eddi Reader -
A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
Daisaku Ikeda -
What I think is sad about the rom-com genre is that it has adopted this pejorative title. I think the reason why there haven't been as many great ones is because we are fighting against the genre itself. If it is a romantic comedy then snuggle up to the fact that it can be a really earnest, refreshing feeling to feel good after a movie.
Lake Bell -
Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.
Vera Rubin
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What you have to give, you offer least of all through what you say; in greater part through what you do; but in greatest part through who you are.
Bob Burg -
Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations... and it can defeat that nicotine.
Napoleon Hill -
Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.
Zadie Smith -
The way I feel about Crunk Feminists. Here you have a bunch of bloggers who are not even quoting any feminists' works who are telling me what I can do better when I've been doing this as my life's work while y'all still in college! What are you talking about? And their criticism was of the idea that we should approach people like Rick Ross and Lil' Wayne with love when they have lyrics that we don't like, as opposed to approaching them with hate. That's their issue: How dare I say I approach Rick Ross with love!
Talib Kweli Black Star -
One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.
Billy Collins