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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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 -
If a parent knows that their kid is suddenly becoming infatuated with ISIS, they face a very difficult choice, which is, you know, do I - what do I do?
Peter Bergen
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It's this idea that success changes you as a person... I've never seen my career that way.
Mary Balogh -
God saved me.
Glen Campbell -
I have written movies that won prizes at Cannes and Venice.
Luciano Vincenzoni -
Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin -
When we signed with Warner Bros., they knew what they were getting. They knew they weren't going to get some easily manipulated prepackaged pop group. That was not going to happen. What they wanted, I think, was the integrity that we had to offer. What they wanted was the kind of street cred or cache that R.E.M. could bring to them and the chance that we would give them a hit or two. What happened was we gave them a bunch of hits. And we became huge.
Michael Stipe R.E.M. -
I just made pictures I would've liked to see.
Billy Wilder