James Garner Quotes
People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
Kate Middleton
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
Edmonia Lewis
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
Ovid
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
Randall Munroe
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
Dane DeHaan
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The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
Jack Dorsey
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
Larry Flynt
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The muses visit when I'm lonely.
Taylor Hicks
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde
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As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
Ralph Adams Cram
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
Raghuram Rajan
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
Gary Hamel
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
Naveen Andrews
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Like every girl, we don't talk about our surgeries.
Candis Cayne
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
Laura Harrier
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I was a campaign widow.
Laura Moser
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You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.
Sally Hawkins
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I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.
Ed Sheeran
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The painter strives and competes with nature.
Leonardo da Vinci
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I was kind of a volatile personality, very intense. Because of that, I drew some criticism and people would say things about me, and my parents had tried to defend me. I would just tell them don't worry about it. Our day will come.
Kirk Gibson
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Sometimes people ask me, 'You do stand-up?' I try explaining what I do, and I don't think they really get it. So: 'Yeah, I do stand-up.' I wish there was one word to express what I do - that way, I don't sound arrogant. Whenever I say I'm a performer, people think I'm a performance artist: 'She paints herself white and pretends to be a flower.'
Charlyne Yi
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Changing people's beliefs and altering behaviors is a very difficult challenge in any setting.
Kent Brantly
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I really think the Uberfication of everything is a trend that I didn't expect to be coming this fast. I mean, every single thing you want to do in your life, people are building services to take all the pain out.
Jason Calacanis
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People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon.
James Garner