James Lane Allen Quotes
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I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.
Yuji Horii -
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
Nancy Astor -
I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
Malcolm Gladwell -
I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
Langston Hughes -
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
H. L. Mencken -
I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'
Dan O'Brien
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Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
Bassem Youssef -
'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.
Laura Wade -
In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.
Barry Watson -
In 1993, 89 of the 'Fortune' top 100 companies were administering the Myers-Briggs test to their employees. The philosophy behind personality tests is that they don't want you to be in the wrong kind of job. The tests have been completely exposed as nonsense.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
Man, Ben Henderson, Donald Cerrone... these guys are a different level, man.
Rafael dos Anjos -
I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.
Oliver North
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I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I've done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement.
Hannah Kearney -
If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa -
It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs – because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.
Taylor Swift -
First of all: what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.
Bertrand Russell -
We are asking the question: What makes the most sense for public-private partnerships for affordable housing.
David Ige -
It's definitely like being in some weird sorority. I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest.
Ana Gasteyer
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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.
Billy Joel -
When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen.
Paul Theroux -
He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.
Ernest Hemingway -
We do not attract what we want, but what we are.
James Lane Allen