Nelson Algren Quotes
About his legacy: I'll be all right so long as it has been written on some corner of a human heart. On the heart, it doesn't matter how you spell it.
Nelson Algren
Quotes to Explore
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
Ian Hacking
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
Vin Diesel
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Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.
Otis Williams
The Temptations
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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
Walker Evans
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A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.
Frances McDormand
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My connections to Broward are long, and they are deep, and I'm proud of them.
Ted Deutch
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Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.
Isaac Hanson
Hanson
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Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart cannot be contained.
Gary Zukav
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No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.
Nancy Thayer
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People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.
P. Chidambaram
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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
Victor Hugo
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Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are preparing to use it; when they do not require it, they allow it to remain unbent, for otherwise it would remain unserviceable when the time for using it arrived. So it is with man. If he were to devote himself unceasingly to a dull round of business, without breaking the monotony by cheerful amusements, he would fall imperceptibly into idiocy, or be struck by paralysis.
Herodotus
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In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people.
Ed O'Neill
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Every time I step onto the field, whether people like it or not, I'm not trying to play dirty - I'm just playing tough.
Carli Lloyd
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For years, my dad's friend Joe was just my dad's friend. And it was only when I was 12 or 13 I learned that he was the lead singer of a band called The Clash.
Alfie Allen
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About his legacy: I'll be all right so long as it has been written on some corner of a human heart. On the heart, it doesn't matter how you spell it.
Nelson Algren
