Desiderius Erasmus Quotes
If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.Desiderius Erasmus
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
Dabney Coleman -
In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
Edmund White -
The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
Barbara Amiel -
The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
Harold Warner -
I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
Adam Hasner -
My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
Lake Bell
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
Irene Rosenfeld -
With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
Rachel McAdams -
See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
Patricia Clarkson -
Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
Nana Mouskouri
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
Maeve Binchy -
I like heels and make-up.
Victoria Pendleton -
I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
Becky Lynch -
A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'
Macaulay Culkin -
Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen -
The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
Xavier Niel
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All my life I've had a weight problem. As a child, I loved to eat. I would hide from my mother and drink whole cans of condensed milk in my room.
Maria Conchita Alonso -
For me, a great joke is an idea expressed in extremely concentrated form.
Geoff Dyer -
All well bred persons lie - Besides, you are a woman; you must never speak what you think.
William Congreve -
Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.
Aisha Tyler -
The kickboxing and the martial arts is so fun. It's like anything in school. You're not going to retain information unless you're interested in it.
Zoey Deutch -
If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
Desiderius Erasmus