Jeff Giles Quotes
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Being flown to the U.S. to meet Sofia Coppola is really exciting. I was freaking out. I'm a little nervous, as I don't want to muck it up I want to do my best.
Olivia DeJonge -
Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.
Cameron Boyce -
No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
Sam Neill -
The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.
Sam Brownback -
Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
Imre Lakatos -
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
Lao Tzu
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. Forster -
I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
Felicity Kendal -
The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
Nathan Myhrvold -
When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
Carl Hiaasen -
Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
Dan Gilbert -
The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
H. Rap Brown
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Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
Salman Rushdie -
I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
Jack Quaid -
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde -
Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it.
Vince Cable -
When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with nonfiction, you have to be as factual as possible but also hopefully - also bring... emotional relevance to the piece.
Oscar Hijuelos
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It's true that a smile can take years off a person - not that such a thing matters in Yoko Ono's case.
Elvis Mitchell -
People are people, regardless of who they love or what gender they relate to.
Bill Foster -
I want to do all types of music, music for all people. I want my music to be encouraging, to help people.
Fantasia Barrino -
They said if I could deal with the pain, I should play. So, I did, and for some reason, I started hitting. It was a weird thing. I don't know if it was because I couldn't do too much, and I was just trying to stay up through the middle and not hurt myself.
Freddie Freeman -
Scott Bradfield writes weird, oblique, unsettling stuff.
Jeff Giles