Plautus Quotes
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
Sam Hunt -
I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.
Kabir Bedi -
I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
Famke Janssen -
A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.
Earl Weaver -
Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
E. Stanley Jones -
I can scare myself like a pro.
Imogen Poots
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It's much easier for me to do an impression of someone real, because you and the audience begin with a baseline understanding of this person's life. And then if you subvert that in any way, it's a little comedy surprise.
Kate McKinnon -
We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden inside himself there's a wizard and a king, he also knows that when he's playing himself in his daily life, he's playing a part, he's performing, just as he's performing when he plays a part on stage.
Wallace Shawn -
When I was younger, I had some close friends who always loved European football, and Real Madrid at that time were the dominant force. I remember family holidays when we used to go to Spain, and we'd bring back replica shirts of Real Madrid and pretend to be the players when we played in the park.
Gareth Bale -
There's all these idealistic things that TV and movies tell you that you should want to be. And when you're growing up, you find out what you really care about and what really matters.
Garrett Clayton -
I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
Barbra Streisand -
Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.
Karen Armstrong
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In so far as men believed that the traditional ceremonial was what God wanted of them, they would be indifferent to the reformation of social ethics. If the hydraulic force of religion could be turned toward conduct, there is nothing which it could not accomplish.
Walter Rauschenbusch -
Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?
Jiddu Krishnamurti -
A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic - not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so.
Azar Nafisi -
Paddy Ashdown: ...this is an agreement which the right hon. Lady will be entitled to regard with a certain pride and satisfaction as she looks back on the twilight days of her premiership...
Margaret Thatcher -
If in looking at a picture you have been profoundly moved by it, but have not noticed the color or drawing, you may be sure that they are technically perfect.
Auguste Rodin -
You're at a party or an event, and you're interacting with other people, but there's no shame in getting your camera out and getting your perfect angle. It's bizarre to me.
Dylan Penn
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A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.
Michael Heizer -
I kind of hate the fact that people are always trying to put you into a category. I hate walls, and I hate boundaries. I don't like that. I listen to everything.
Brian McKnight -
Without unity, the country will face disaster.
Bhumibol Adulyadej -
Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, 'No.'
Douglas Brinkley -
I've drifted in and out of vegetarianism for years.
Quentin S. Crisp -
Quasi piscis itidem est amator lenae: nequam est nisi recens.1
Plautus