Diogenes Quotes
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To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.
Valentino Rossi -
I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.
Macaulay Culkin -
I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
Damon Albarn Blur -
I come from an area where it's mostly, like, football and basketball, those are the sports. So my brother started surfing... I used to make fun of him for it, and then he challenged me to do it, and I'm a huge competitor, and I did it ,and I got hooked.
Manny Montana -
A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
Ralph W. Sockman -
Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
Carl Hiaasen -
Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.
Olivia Thirlby -
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
T. E. Lawrence -
From a social networking point of view, Pakistan is not very far away.
Ian Lustick -
The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.
Carl Bernstein -
Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.
Barbara Januszkiewicz
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I have been a long-term environmental advocate for the agriculture industry. I have particularly tried to push carbon farming or carbon sequestration.
Sam Brownback -
The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change is, ironically, what has kept it constant throughout the ages.
Gabriel Byrne -
Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.
Jack Black -
When I started in 1992, I really thought the 'Vogue' fashion department was one of the most frightening places on the planet.
Hamish Bowles -
It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not need of gold to form his Church. The Church possesses gold, not to hoard, but to scatter abroad and come to the aid of the unfortunate.
Saint Ambrose -
I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wanted to be anyone other than myself. There are a few people that I've wished I could play like, but when I tried, it didn't work.
B. B. King
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Apart from the emergency aid we provide to alleviate the sufferings of victims of natural disasters, calamities and crises, we worked for transforming U.A.E.'s charity activities into an institutional activity with an aim of making them more effective and sustainable.
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan -
From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed To grateful twilight.
John Milton -
Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.
Eddie Redmayne -
All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.
Donald Miller -
We are resident inside with the machinery, a glimmering spread throughout the apparatus. We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones. The flesh is a neighborhood, but not the life.
Jack Gilbert -
Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.
Diogenes