Plutarch Quotes
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I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
Val McDermid -
I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
Imre Kertesz -
I kind of crave loneliness.
Sam Heughan -
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Carl Sandburg -
And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
Venerable Bede
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I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'
Halima Aden -
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson -
I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
Natalie Cole -
In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
Ferran Adria -
I'm really interested in playing my age.
Frances McDormand -
For me, rockabilly is very, very exciting music. It's electric and kind of wild, you know? It's 'make your hairs stand up on the back of your neck' kind of music.
Imelda May
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
Ram Charan -
I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy -
There are always two forces warring against each other within us.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
If there is inequality, and that equates with colour, then I'm going to deal with it.
Forest Whitaker -
Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
Jack Nicklaus -
Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.
Vash Young
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It's a hell of a thing to be born, and if you're born you're at least entitled to your own self.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson -
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
Henry Ward Beecher -
There's a moment of truth that comes when you are performing, and you are all alone.
Frank Vincent -
You can never see a plant grow, but they do.
Carol Plum-Ucci -
So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.
Plutarch