Ian Mcewan Quotes
I would rather be physically disabled obviously than mentally. I would rather be paraplegic than nuts. And it is a terrifying prospect and actually the longer we live the more likely it is that that's how we will go and that's a very painful thing to contemplate.Ian Mcewan
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I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.
Rachel Sklar -
Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
Zadie Smith -
If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
Vince Lombardi -
In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
Barry Humphries -
I guess I crave stability.
Gabrielle Reece -
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
A. R. Ammons
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
Walt Alston -
So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
Jackie Cooper -
Home is where your rump rests.
Rachel Brosnahan -
The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
Iain Sinclair -
You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
Quavo Migos -
It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
Octavio Paz
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
Rachel Roy -
I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
Adam Hochschild -
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov -
Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.
Faran Tahir -
I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.
Manolo Blahnik
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I just find myself happy with the simple things. Appreciating the blessings God gave me.
DMX -
Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
Vincent Van Gogh -
After 'Real Live Woman,' I wasn't sure I'd ever want to make another record.
Trisha Yearwood -
To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
Emil Cioran -
Emerging actors know there's a whole lot to learn each time they are spending with someone who's done a lot.
Debra Granik -
I would rather be physically disabled obviously than mentally. I would rather be paraplegic than nuts. And it is a terrifying prospect and actually the longer we live the more likely it is that that's how we will go and that's a very painful thing to contemplate.
Ian Mcewan