Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
The manner is often as important as the matter, sometimes more so.Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
Barbara Sukowa -
My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina strikes, and then the conversation only lasts as long as the news cycle. His family squatted in shacks. The children scavenged for food.
Karin Slaughter -
I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
Garry Shandling -
I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.
Larry Hagman -
I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.
Orson Pratt -
I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
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I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
Victoria Jackson -
I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
Nadia Comaneci -
To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.
Tariq Ali -
We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
Oliver North -
I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers.
Zev Yaroslavsky
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
Gaston Bachelard -
I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
Patrick Kane -
Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.
Nancy Meyers -
I've learnt more physics from Kabbalah than I ever did in school.
Yehuda Berg -
I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.
Maeve Binchy -
Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.
Nafisa Joseph
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I am very fired up to run in New York.
Dayron Robles -
As for myself, I was never against Russia.
Eduard Shevardnadze -
He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.
Hernan Cortes -
I met Peter O'Toole for the first time at Dad's memorial service because my Dad didn't hang around with people like that when we were around. We didn't grow up with Richard Burton coming around to tea.
Jared Harris -
I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.
James Salter -
The manner is often as important as the matter, sometimes more so.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield