Jasper Fforde Quotes
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There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.
Barry McGuire -
I am always locked in my design studio.
Valentino Garavani -
I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
Malcolm Wilson -
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
T. S. Eliot -
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama -
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
E. Stanley Jones
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I like it when my wife is in her jeans, with very little makeup. But, I also appreciate the range - the different ways she can look. The moment she walks out all dressed up and... whoa! That's always good.
Patrick Wilson -
When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
I'm not interested in just beautiful girls and beautiful clothes.
Francesco Carrozzini -
I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
Yani Tseng -
We are very luck to be women, so even if we're wearing trousers, I always wear them with some lace underwear or a very feminine bra - I like that.
Carine Roitfeld -
Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
B. F. Skinner
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.
Kailash Satyarthi -
A dream acting role would be Matt Damon in the Bourne series. I would love to do something like that!
Taylor Lautner -
I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
Rachel Nichols -
Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
Xavier Dolan -
Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
Queen Latifah
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Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.
Daley Thompson -
There are curveballs that are thrown at you, and you just have to get over it and forgive... if you believe you're perfect, and you don't believe in forgiveness, you're not meant to be married.
Kendra Wilkinson -
Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted.
Albert Einstein -
Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.
Bob Ehrlich -
What does 'Ngaio' mean? I don't know. Like many Maori words, it has a number of meanings - clever, light on the water, a little bug - but I don't know which my parents had in mind.
Ngaio Marsh -
Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
Jasper Fforde