Emily Dickinson Quotes
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
Salman Rushdie -
I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.
Zara Larsson -
Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
Sam Ewing -
I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
Oscar Pistorius -
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
V. S. Naipaul -
I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.
Gabrielle Giffords
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I'm good at utilising body parts as letters.
Tavi Gevinson -
I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
Laura Linney -
I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
Paloma Faith -
When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living conditions: no electricity, no running water and, of course, no computer, no phone.
Sally Mann -
Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.
Abraham Lincoln -
Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.
Madeleine Stowe
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There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.
Safak Pavey -
I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.
Maggie Q -
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
Quentin Crisp -
I am not a fashion freak!
Kate Moss
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I think that, as a black girl, you grow up internalizing all these messages that say you shouldn't accept your hair or your skin tone or your natural features or that you shouldn't have a voice or that you aren't smart.
Amandla Stenberg -
I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
This whole celebrity racket, it's not really my bag. I don't really do that stuff, and I am not looking to get famous myself. I would love it if my characters get famous, my work was well known and appreciated. But I'm an actor, not a spokes model or a celebrity or whatever that is. I don't know how to be that.
John C. Reilly -
Hopefully, one day people will be able to look at Mumford & Sons and say, 'that's a career band.' It's all about time instead of sales.
Ben Lovett Mumford & Sons -
Other top-level politicians do not express their global warming doubts because a whip of political correctness strangles their voice.
Vaclav Klaus -
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
Emily Dickinson