Dylan Moran Quotes
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I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
Veronica Franco -
I wanted to create flats that are as chic as heels - flats you don't have to apologize for.
Edgardo Osorio -
I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
Abbas Kiarostami -
Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
Navid Negahban -
All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
Barbara Walters -
Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
A. E. Housman
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In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration.
Edie Falco -
That's what you feel as an athlete. Pretty much our job is to make the impossible happen every day. It's like magic, you know. I like that.
Venus Williams -
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
Ulysses S. Grant -
The poet must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place.
Samuel Johnson -
'Well, yes, surely I think everybody ought to enjoy life as much as it's humanly possible because that's why we exist. I believe.'
Malcolm Bradbury -
I was a bad kid. I say this without pride but with a feeling that it is better to say it. I live with one great hope: to help kids who now stand where I stood as a boy. If what I have to say here helps even one of them avoid some of my own mistakes, or take heart from such triumphs as I have had, this book will serve its purpose.
Babe Ruth
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Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.
Alfred North Whitehead -
You mean nothing to no one but that's nobody's fault.
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes -
I think I have this responsibility to my father’s generation, and especially future generations.
Ai Weiwei -
There really isn't a formula for success.
Anthony Santos Aventura -
We cannot afford to regard as normal the presence of injustice, inhumanity, and violence, including their verbal and cyber manifestations.
Bernice King -
There are obviously peaks and valleys in everyone's career. This business can be a roller-coaster ride, and it's really hard to stay on top all the time. Very few people do.
Chris O'Donnell
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He’d never treated her like a lady. He’d treated her like an equal instead, and that had seemed far more precious.
Courtney Milan -
'Dead Aid' is about the inefficacy and the limitations of large-scale aid programs in creating economic growth and reducing poverty in Africa.
Dambisa Moyo -
I don't care what those schmucks think. I'm a millionaire.
Uri Geller -
Everything that happens to you, I feel like it helps you develop as a person, as a player.
Phil Humber -
Wherever...thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to seek for one, for thou thyself art a sanctuary designed for prayer. If thou shalt be in bed, or in any other place, pray there; thy temple is there.
Bernard of Clairvaux -
On euphemisms for homosexuals.
Dylan Moran