J. G. Ballard Quotes
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
Fashion breaks my heart.
Kanye West -
I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
Naomi Campbell -
Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
Warren Farrell -
I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
Vera Miles -
I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
Victoria Principal
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I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.
Kate Klise -
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
Oliver Goldsmith -
I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.
Laila Ali -
Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.
Adam Mansbach -
The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
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We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.
Kapil Sibal -
I would really like to play someone contemporary, as I've done lots of period pieces. I would love to play an American bimbo or a grimy Londoner. But I'm probably more suited in people's minds to playing a corseted victim.
Rachel Hurd-Wood -
Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.
Flula Borg -
To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
Beck -
America is a meritocracy.
P. J. O'Rourke -
One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
F. H. Bradley
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I once did a film in Russia because I wanted to see what the hell was going on there.
Peter Falk -
Tiger Woods was a month away from 34 years of age when his debutantes began turning up in the news. He was a grown man with a wife and two children. Well, we supposed he had a wife, but that was before we learned she was only an ornament.
Dan Jenkins -
While we may not be called to martyr our lives, we must martyr our way of life. We must put our selfish ways to death and march to a different beat. Then the world will see Jesus.
Michael Tait Newsboys -
I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.
J. G. Ballard