Mary Renault Quotes
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
Vikas Swarup -
To make headway, improve your head.
B. C. Forbes -
The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
Walter Gilbert -
The thing that has always struck me is that there has always been a bit of a hole at YouTube when it comes to authenticity, human emotion, fun and play.
Ze Frank -
What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
F. Sionil Jose -
The gratification of desire is not happiness.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
Jackee Harry -
Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
Maimonides -
Did I shop Kmart for clothing? No, I didn't. But I loved that I could be totally involved in the hangtags, the buttons, the commercials and with the designers. Something in my head said 'Yes.' I was adventurous.
Jaclyn Smith -
I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
Kate McKinnon -
As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
Oprah Winfrey -
We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
Natalie Wood
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Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
Barney Ross -
Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
Hanoi Hannah -
In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.
Barbara Mandrell -
I never thought that I would sell to young people, but now girls who are 14 and 15 buy my shoes.
Manolo Blahnik -
Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.
Zoltan Kodaly -
Short cuts make long delays.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.
Idi Amin -
When people say, 'You're perceived as a sex symbol,' I love the idea of that because it's so absurd.
James Nesbitt -
I do find modern jazz quite tricky.
Jane Asher -
It is impossible to live the life of a disciple without definite times of secret prayer. You will find that the place to enter in is in your business, as you walk along the streets, in the ordinary ways of life, when no one dreams you are praying, and the reward comes openly, a revival here, a blessing there.
Oswald Chambers -
No family is ever what it seems from the outside.
Francesca Messina -
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
Mary Renault