James Nasmyth Quotes
In all well-conducted concerns the law of 'selection of the fittest' sooner or later comes into happy action, when a loyal and attached set of men work together harmoniously for their own advantage as well as for that of their employers.James Nasmyth
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
F. Gary Gray -
Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
Zac Posen -
What Washington needs is adult supervision.
Barack Obama -
I'm here today because I hated everything else.
Wanda Sykes -
I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
Padma Lakshmi -
People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
L'Wren Scott
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You can say whatever you want about me, I'm not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that's a problem.
Zayn Malik One Direction -
I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.
Imelda Staunton -
Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
Pat Brown -
No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
Calvin Klein -
People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
Manoj Bhargava -
Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
Naeem Khan
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Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
Fannie Flagg -
Your belief system saturates the space around you.
Aaron Huey -
Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
Oprah Winfrey -
We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
Vicki Lawrence -
The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.
Gary Numan -
I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
Manuel Puig
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I want to make it clear to England, I am not a party girl.
Paz de la Huerta -
I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have to deal with it. In the gallery, it's the same 150 people on the San Francisco art scene. There's a dynamic on the street that's definitely more interesting.
Barry McGee -
You have to get in the limelight based on what you do, how creative you are, and not how much money you make.
Jason Calacanis -
By calling GMOs 'poison' and 'evil,' Bill Maher poisons the well of reasoned scientific discussion with ideologically driven fear mongering.
Kyle Hill -
I personally like to do independent films.
Famke Janssen -
In all well-conducted concerns the law of 'selection of the fittest' sooner or later comes into happy action, when a loyal and attached set of men work together harmoniously for their own advantage as well as for that of their employers.
James Nasmyth