Denis Diderot Quotes
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.Denis Diderot
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
Nadia Comaneci -
It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Tacitus -
When I travel, there are no rules with my diet. I eat whatever looks good, but in small portions. Food is such a rich part of the travel experience. There is no way I would cut that out!
Zoe McLellan -
I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
Sam Hunt -
Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
Gary Hamel -
I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
Washed Out
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
Kaley Cuoco -
The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
Sam Yagan -
The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
Dana Brunetti -
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
Ian MacKaye -
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Edmund Burke -
Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
Mallory Ortberg
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
Jack Kerouac -
A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
Dakota Johnson -
If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.
B. B. King -
I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
Taylor Swift -
I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
Taylor Swift -
The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.
Nathan Myhrvold
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However, leaving everything to the market is not necessarily good for society.
Dorothy Denning -
I fear the day when the Kuffar are proud of their falsehood, and the Muslims are shy of their faith.
Umar -
A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
E. L. Doctorow -
In the Catholic Church, especially, they go into chancery, make a clean confession, give up all, and think to start again. Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.
Henry David Thoreau -
That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.
Joe Elliott Def Leppard -
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
Denis Diderot