Philip Larkin Quotes
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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
K. A. Applegate -
I made some good pictures, and I made some bad ones. I wasn't trying to build an image, though; I was trying to build a life for myself.
Sal Mineo -
The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
Salman Rushdie -
The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
Ed Gillespie -
For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
Larry Kramer -
I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
Jack Nicholson -
I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
Adam Braun -
Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
Hannah Arendt -
Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
W. Eugene Smith -
People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.
Fiona Shaw
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.
Ian Mckellen -
This is ludicrous. Seven- and eight-year-olds valiantly trying to cover the same acreage as those grown-up chaps in the Premier League is absurd. To add to the lunacy, a little goalkeeper, barely out of nappies, has to stand between posts that are eight strides apart - adult strides - and under a crossbar more than twice his height.
Gary Lineker -
This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.
N. K. Jemisin -
I take the time to look at my videos after a fight to see not what I did right but what I did wrong, to learn from those mistakes.
Canelo Alvarez -
It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.
Barbara Castle
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I think women athletes who have been successful need to help other sports, those sports that are just emerging. That's what I've been thinking about and looking forward to.
Venus Williams -
With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.
Armstrong Williams -
Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!
Michael Caine -
What distracts us will begin to define us. We don't need to swing at every pitch.
Bob Goff -
Opinion pages have an impact on public debate, and they sometimes reveal things the government would rather have kept quiet.
Andrew Rosenthal -
You can't put off being young until you retire.
Philip Larkin