Billy Wilder Quotes
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People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.
Samantha Mumba -
No fruit. No veggie.
Bea Arthur -
Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.
Hal Sparks -
I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.
Rachael MacFarlane -
I've heard my work called 'bold' and 'graffiti-like,' but for me it is always instinctual. I start with a shape or a colour and go from there.
Paloma Picasso -
You can't always be the jokester and the doormat.
Manny Montana
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People were saying, 'He's worth £32m? He tried a back-heel and fell over!' Even I laughed. In my head, I said, 'OK, you've seen the bad side, now come see the good side'.
Eden Hazard -
The power of collecting money from the people is not to be rejected because it has sometimes been oppressive. Public credit is as necessary for the prosperity of a nation as private credit is for the support and wealth of a family.
Oliver Ellsworth -
The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.
Edgar Winter -
He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.
Frances Wright -
I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent's Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the U.S.
Jackson Browne -
Trading forces someone to think hard; those who merely work hard generally lose their focus and intellectual energy. In addition, they end up drowning in randomness; work ethics draw people to focus on noise rather than the signal.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Not only the artist but everyone 'becomes someone else' in becoming someone. One is thought about, thus invented. Or as Steinberg put it with memorable succinctness in his Cogito drawings, 'I think, therefore Descartes is.' One creates not oneself but another. Being is in the act.
Harold Rosenberg -
This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.
Jim Morrison The Doors -
I think the word of the United States has been as good as gold in its international dealings and its agreements.
Condoleezza Rice -
Thanks be to God, that he gave me Stubborness, when I know I am right.
John Adams -
For the eyes are the mirror of the soul and ought to remain unscathed if at all possible. Otherwise people will suppose the soul is done for.
Elfriede Jelinek -
'The Practice' is one of my favorite shows of all time, and the first few seasons of that show were amazing, and then when they started winning the big case, it just got less interesting.
Alec Berg
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I saw Berry in concert a couple of times in the late '70s - and like almost every North American male of a certain age, I went because a friend was hired by Berry that very day to be part of the legend's backup band.
Elvis Mitchell -
Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.
Drew Barrymore -
Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.
Yahya Jammeh -
We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.
Erich Maria Remarque -
I have had to fight every single style coming up on my way to get here I wasn't fed anyone in any point of my career. I fought every style you could think of - righty, lefty, tall, short, power-puncher, fast guys, counter guys, so for me it is the norm - training for guys with different styles.
Chris Algieri -
I just made pictures I would've liked to see.
Billy Wilder