Sam Ervin Quotes
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
Jack Henry Abbott -
Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
Venus Williams -
I've never cared for the idea of a career path, or where a film might 'take me.' My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner -
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
Salvatore Quasimodo
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
Jackson Katz -
Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
Dan Stevens -
There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.
Hansika Motwani -
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Walter Bagehot -
When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.
Ian McLagan Small Faces
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
Rachel Johnson -
It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
Carlisle Floyd -
I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have to deal with it. In the gallery, it's the same 150 people on the San Francisco art scene. There's a dynamic on the street that's definitely more interesting.
Barry McGee -
I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.
Randy Travis -
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
Haim Ginott -
If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
J. K. Simmons
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About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don't believe in it. It's something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.
Paulo Coelho -
The best advice I got was to enjoy it. It's an opportunity you've been waiting for your whole life. Don't dread it, but embrace it. It's something that you can take with you for a long time.
Chris Spielman -
Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.
Jonathan Sacks -
I think part of the reason the Tea Party has resonated is that people feel disempowered. The Tea Party says, "You are out of power because of big government." Then some Democrats tend to respond by saying, "No, you're wrong, you're not out of power." It's a sense that doesn't resonate with people's lived experience.
Zephyr Teachout -
In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.
Georges Danton -
Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
Sam Ervin