Pierre Loti Quotes
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Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.
Malcolm McDowell -
We have just been working hard to have people to come out to vote and to make sure people understand how important the election is.
Ted Deutch -
For me, take Tiger Woods. I always thought he was great, but I never truly understood how good he was until I had the chance to go to Tiger Woods Golf Camp. He taught me how to swing and was hitting the ball, and this dude was unreal.
Larry Fitzgerald -
I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
Viggo Mortensen -
I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
Ferdinand Marcos -
I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 homes at the same time.
Tamala Jones -
I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.
Camille Claudel -
It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.
Salman Rushdie -
Although advertised as 'invite only', it has been reported by Forbes Council members and invitees that this 'invite' came with a membership fee.
Fabrizio Moreira -
Today is indeed an historic occasion when as a first chair-in-office woman I hand over to another woman chair in office, your Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in the presence of a woman head of the Commonwealth, Her Royal Highness, Her Majesty the Queen of England.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar -
I can't argue my way out of a paper bag.
Gabriel Macht
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We shot 'Skateland' in the end of 2008, in Shreveport, Louisiana just between the border of East Texas and Louisiana - and we shot 'Battle: Los Angeles' at the end of 2009, also in Shreveport. So I know a lot about Shreveport.
Taylor Handley -
My children speak very good Chinese, and they translate for our American friends.
Wendi Deng Murdoch -
Maybe my face is edgy, but that's because it's the face of somebody who's seen life.
Taryn Manning Boomkat -
Through such impressions one gathers oneself, wins oneself back from the exacting multiplicity, which speaks and chatters there (and how talkative it is!), and one slowly learns to recognize the very few Things in which something eternal endures that one can love and something solitary that one can gently take part in.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.
Walter Benjamin -
Birth, n. The first and direst of all disasters.
Ambrose Bierce
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There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored.
Flannery O'Connor -
I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
Wendy Cope -
Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.
Pablo Picasso -
For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.
Al Goldstein -
I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.
J. D. Salinger -
It seems to me that it will be very wearisome to be a man.
Pierre Loti