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I have always hated fancy dress parties.

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• When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Long
  • Night
  • Ride

• Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Women
  • Stand
  • Weapons

• The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Mind
  • Hate
  • Acting

• When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • Dignity
  • Begins
  • Boasting

• I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Always
  • About
  • Heroes

• The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • War
  • Effort
  • Plants

• You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.

  

  Randall Terry
  • God
  • Law
  • Know

• I think you can totally be a totally normal kid from the suburbs of Chicago and go off and play shows. It's one of those things that when you go home, you're still the nerd you were when you left, and your parents still get to yell at you about cleaning up your room, and your girlfriend still drags you to the pet store.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Home
  • Parents

• In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Future
  • Past
  • Action

• You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Up
  • Real
  • School

• Lucky enough, through the public school system, I had been able to have some music education, and that gave me something to focus on, and discipline - like a family to feel part of. There was a healthy family.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Music
  • Family
  • School

• I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.

  

  Larry Norman
  • People
  • Think
  • Christian

• We don't give importance to Page 3 or to appear at all the events. Our focus is on our kids and our home.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Focus

• People often ask us if we had direct influences. Honestly, just a lot of different music - not necessarily individual people. We listen to anything from Bob Dylan to Massive Attack to Aerosmith to En Vogue. We very much enjoy all that music.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Style
  • English
  • Wishes

• A project like Pangea, which enables us to enter in to the situations of others, imaginatively, is fulfilling what the religions call the Golden Rule... going into one's own experience, and going into other's experience, and seeing the world from another perspective - that's what we desperately need in our dangerously polarized world.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • World
  • Experience
  • Perspective

• What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed I’ll fail, and vice versa, so as not to be rid of my tormentors.

  

  Samuel Beckett

• We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Life
  • Work
  • May

• When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains them and profits by them, white America could not believe it. But it is true. Unless we start to fight and defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, and make our talk of equality and opportunity ring true, we are exposed in the eyes of the world as hypocrites when we talk about making people free - (Chapter 9).

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Opportunity

• I'm noise-sensitive. It's always better for me if things are quiet, so I can concentrate.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Me
  • Better
  • Quiet

• Yes, I am Irish and Indian, which would be the coolest blend in the world if my parents were around to teach me how to be Irish and Indian. But they're not here and haven't been for years, so I'm not really Irish or Indian. I am a blank sky, a human solar eclipse.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • World
  • Parent
  • Teach

• I love Nike's running shoes and clothes because they feel as light as a feather.

  

  Katia Winter
  • Light
  • Running
  • Shoes

• Every technique brings up a different kind of demand on the use of the element.

  

  Anni Albers
  • Use
  • Demand
  • Technique

• I have always hated fancy dress parties.

  

  Mary Beard