James Allen Quotes
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I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped.
Tamra Davis -
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Karl Marx -
Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.
Iain Duncan Smith -
Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
Abu Bakr -
Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.
Ibrahim Babangida -
I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.
Lady Gaga
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Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work. He, as a boy, had to watch his father be mocked and abused on the street for being Jewish... You develop a thick skin and you develop a certain kind of wit to defend yourself.
Viggo Mortensen -
They call people who love London 'Anglophiles' and people who love France 'Francophiles.' I'd be the New York version of that.
T. R. Knight -
Steven Spielberg was my idol growing up. I knew that all of his movies have a very specific message and point of view, and the always are really epic.
Manish Dayal -
I'm really into fashion, but I don't really spend that much on clothes. I manage to find everything I want at a good price.
Gabrielle Aplin -
The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.
Ibrahim Babangida -
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
Sallust
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'Tyrannosaur's an arrival for me, but it's also the first step into a new career. I don't want to be moonlighting at this, like I have done with acting. Y'know, I think I've found my career at 37 years old.
Paddy Considine -
As children, we all hold on to the myth of omnipotence. Comics are successful because kids identify with superheroes. They'll read a book or watch a TV programme and say, 'I'm that guy.' And that guy is always the one in control.
Eddie Marsan -
I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl: I want to rule the world.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
I think that cosmetic enhancements in my profession are just an occupational hazard. But I think, more culturally, I'm interested in starting the conversation about aging gracefully and how, instead of making it a cultural problem, we make it individuals' problems.
Frances McDormand -
You don't have to subject yourself to the sweep and rigor of Bourdieu's book 'Distinction' to feel how thoroughly a lower-calorie version of its ideas has been absorbed into the cultural bloodstream.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you.
Illeana Douglas
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Every decision, every debate, no matter how important it is, with the same question: 'What does this mean for the next election? What does it mean for your poll numbers? Is this good for the Democrats or good for the Republicans? Who won the news cycle?' That's just how Washington is. They can't help it. They're obsessed with the sport of politics.
Barack Obama -
We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.
Jimmy Carter -
History, at its best, always tells us as much indirectly about ourselves as it does directly about our predecessors, and it is often most revealing when it deals with episodes and phenomena that we find repulsive.
Edmund Morgan -
Think about all of the non-entrepreneurial advice and resources you need when building a company. You need lawyers, accountants, financial experts.
Jennifer Hyman -
Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.
David Boies -
Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
James Allen