Jacques d'Amboise Quotes
I didn't know if I could act, but I knew I could be a great ballet dancer, and Balanchine put out the carpet for me.Jacques d'Amboise
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I'm very self-critical.
Manolo Blahnik -
I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
Walter Isaacson -
The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
Barbara Bush -
I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
Nas -
There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
A. J. Cook
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I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
Yulia Tymoshenko -
We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
Pat Paulsen -
Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
Mae West -
Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
Adam Braun -
I was raised doing martial arts.
Victor Webster -
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
Vera Wang -
I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
Fiona Shaw -
As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.
Barbara Lee -
Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
Nancy Astor -
There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.
Viktor Orban
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I worked at a McDonald's inside a Walmart. It wasn't even a real McDonald's.
Riki Lindhome -
After a lifetime of living on hope because there is nothing but hope, one loses the taste for victory.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
I remember a period where my publisher said to me, 'Look, your historical work is selling much better than your contemporary work, so please give us more historicals.'
Emma Donoghue -
Actresses are mental on the whole. But I think I'm pretty normal.
Alexandra Roach -
Rick Scott's my friend. And I think he's done a great job. And it's my experiences with him that are part of the reason I'm running for Senate.
Carlos Lopez-Cantera -
I didn't know if I could act, but I knew I could be a great ballet dancer, and Balanchine put out the carpet for me.
Jacques d'Amboise