Jeff Buckley Quotes
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I'm coming to the end of my life. I do reflect on what I've done for the 85 years that I have been given so far. And I'm proud of what I've done.
Ed Koch -
Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
Ralph Steadman -
I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
Harriet Walter -
Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
Fran Drescher -
Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'
Quincy Jones -
People do stupid things in the heat of the moment. I've been in Vegas where I've gotten married for, like, five minutes.
Lance Bass NSYNC
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Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
Irving Wallace -
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
Ovid -
People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.
Carl Paladino -
They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just seem big because there wasn't anything else drown it out at the time?
Karl Pilkington -
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Oliver Herford -
Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
Harper Lee -
At the appointed time, necessities become ripe. That is the time when the Creative Spirit (which one can also designate as the Abstract Spirit) finds an avenue to the soul, later to other souls, and causes a yearning, an inner urge.
Wassily Kandinsky -
There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've got to do it. They're prepared to sacrifice everything to satisfy their yearning.
W. Somerset Maugham -
'Are you yourself a Christian?'The young man made a negative sign. 'The concepts of religion baffle me.''This inscrutability is perhaps not unintentional,' said the ex-priest. 'It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers and tricksters.'
Jack Vance -
Sausage-Seller: You demagogues are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
Aristophanes -
I can't do it, and as for you Can you in good conscience even ask me to? 'Cause what do you care about the great divide As long as you come down on the winner's side?
Aimee Mann
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Amanda Hearst -
I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
Bob Riley -
Machines can do things cheaper and better. We're very used to that in banking, for example. ATM machines are better than tellers if you want a simple transaction. They're faster, they're less trouble, they're more reliable, so they put tellers out of work.
Geoffrey Hinton -
Every child should have a chance to feel special.
Chuck Close -
I made a statement all my own.
Jeff Buckley