Oliver Sacks Quotes
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
Victoria Osteen -
It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
W. Somerset Maugham -
The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.
Valerie Plame -
I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
K. Flay -
Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
Cameron Diaz
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
Magnus Magnusson -
Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
Yayoi Kusama -
In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
Becky G -
There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
Malik Bendjelloul -
My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
Mahershala Ali -
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
Maika Monroe -
From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
Sachin Tendulkar -
I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
Zack Snyder -
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. Forster -
I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
Vanessa Marcil -
Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
Nadia Comaneci
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The thing is, our generation, we fight every day to get through life.
Hayley Williams Paramore -
While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.
Frank Rich -
It rose slowly like a gull sensing a reckless blue fish to close to the surface, and then it dived relentlessly for the green, kicked and stopped three feet short of the flag.
Alistair Cooke -
Of course, this being Perl, we could always take both approaches.
Larry Wall -
I took more swings than usual. I've had this before. This is what you get when you overdo it too early. It's just real tight. It will be fine.
Gary Sheffield -
I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
Oliver Sacks