Martin Amis Quotes
As elsewhere in his writing, Vidal gives the impression of believing that the entire heterosexual edifice - registry offices, Romeo and Juliet, the disposable diaper - is just a sorry story of self-hypnosis and mass hysteria: a hoax, a racket, or sheer propaganda.Martin Amis
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I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
J. Cole -
You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
Daley Thompson -
You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
Gal Gadot -
I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
Rachel Zoe -
The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
Jackson Katz
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The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
Ian Mckellen -
A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Gary Becker -
My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
Sally Kirkland -
Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.
Madhur Mittal -
No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
Ogden Nash -
Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
Naeem Khan
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Samuel Butler -
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
Iris Murdoch -
It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future.
Pam Grier -
I was really, really star-struck when I met Prince.
Kate Moss -
We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
Gautam Adani
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When Chrissie Hynde was inducted into the Hall of Fame, I, of course, was there to see that because I have to back up the girl. When it was over, I said we needed to have a party for Chrissie in my hotel suite. I didn't really know her, but it was great.
Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac -
I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
Karl Ove Knausgaard -
There was a long stint during my childhood after I gave up on being a pro football player - we're talking sixth grade here - that I strongly considered a future writing and drawing comic books. I have been making stuff up ever since.
Adam Ross -
For me, a great joke is an idea expressed in extremely concentrated form.
Geoff Dyer -
You're going to be hearing a lot about one scrappy president.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva -
As elsewhere in his writing, Vidal gives the impression of believing that the entire heterosexual edifice - registry offices, Romeo and Juliet, the disposable diaper - is just a sorry story of self-hypnosis and mass hysteria: a hoax, a racket, or sheer propaganda.
Martin Amis