Pearl S. Buck Quotes
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I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.
Sadaharu Oh -
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Igor Stravinsky -
I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
Carine Roitfeld -
I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
Narendra Modi -
Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
Kate Winslet -
The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
Dan Aykroyd
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
Bat for Lashes -
I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
Nathan Fillion -
The culture of self-gratification and deregulation that began during the Clinton years and continued under President George W. Bush led to the bursting of one stock market bubble at the turn of the century and a full-scale financial crash less than a decade later.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
Jack Kroll -
I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
Babe Ruth -
Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.
Wendy Davis
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Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.
Naveen Andrews -
I know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think that anything could touch me. I thought, I can beat anything.
Pat Summerall -
The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.
Naoto Kan -
Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.
Kanye West -
I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.
Victoria Justice -
Theater, at the end of the day, is about ideas. It's about very large ideas. And if the play is beautifully written or smartly written and has incredible characters you follow on the journey, you take home these larger ideas. Whether it's 'Angels in America' or 'Lucky Guy' or 'Normal Heart,' you follow this moment-to-moment journey as an audience.
George C. Wolfe
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In order not to end up like the masses out there who are merely wandering and unsure of their goals and dreams, your objective must be clear. When your purpose is clear, your life will have meaning.
T. B. Joshua -
The triumph of an uncluttered mind.
Blaine Nye -
I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.
Bryan Adams -
In A Man With a Pipe, my brother observed that although my father had been seen as intellectual and my mother more a creature of temperament, she had often been the more levelheaded of the two. In sum, we miss them as we love them, equally and always.
Madeleine Albright -
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
Pearl S. Buck