Pedro Almodovar Quotes
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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
Oliver Stone -
When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
Carl Rogers -
I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
Gary Shteyngart -
I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
Eden Sher -
Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
Sam Kinison -
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
Yann Martel -
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
Sallust -
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
Carl Bernstein -
I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
Sam Hunt -
I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
Katee Sackhoff -
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
Umberto Eco -
I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
Vera Wang -
Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
Ted Rall -
It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
Adam Cohen -
It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
Dana Torres -
I certainly never saw myself as posh.
Laura Carmichael
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What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.
Neil deGrasse Tyson -
Its rare to see a proud and out LGBT person win an Oscar in a lead or supporting actor role.
Karamo Brown -
Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics -
I was having these terrible back pains, and then one day in Switzerland, things got very bad. My wife Maryanna called the hotel doctor, but I don't remember any of this, I was out of it. I had an operation, and I was nearly lost.
John Tavener -
I am still working with music, but Gordon and I no longer perform together.
Peter Asher -
My first memory is of the eyes of my brother; he was looking at me all the time.
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