C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
Adam Goldberg -
As an actress, I think it's important to look back and realize that we aren't always quite as original as we think we are. There's this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.
Natalie Dormer -
Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
Carlisle Floyd -
During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
Xi Jinping -
'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.
Vicki Lawrence -
When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
Jackie Collins -
I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
Laura Harrier -
I think that we've got a huge head start on things that are not easy to do: progressive streaming, to be able to stream in very high quality, even in an environment of highly variable bit rate, and to work on a big variety of devices seamlessly.
Ted Sarandos -
Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet -
Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.
Madeleine Albright -
I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
Wayne McGregor
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Mahatma Gandhi -
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
Abraham Lincoln -
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
Dakota Fanning -
Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played.
Ian Mckellen -
One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.
Cameron Russell -
It is a changing world with changing opportunities.
Natalie Massenet
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Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.
Willa Cather -
Men often act knowingly against their interest.
David Hume -
Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.
Erykah Badu -
We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us.
Seneca the Younger -
Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
Albert Camus -
Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
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