Brooks Atkinson Quotes
People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.Brooks Atkinson
Quotes to Explore
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Any actor wants their movies and their work to be seen. You don't make a movie or get into this profession for your work not to be seen and just to show them to your mates at home.
Sam Worthington -
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
Ovid -
It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.
Gary Lineker -
Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
Victor Ponta -
The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
Harold Urey -
My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
Laura Mvula
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
Bear Grylls -
As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
Oliver Sim The xx -
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
Samuel Johnson -
Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
Adam Grant -
I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
Carine Roitfeld -
As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
Dalai Lama -
Muslim girls, we love fashion! Whether we wear the hijab or not - it's our choice - and it's time the industry took note. Finally, fashion stores are open to that idea.
Yuna -
I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
Zig Ziglar -
My life was made easy - I lived in a village, and by writing for some newspapers and magazines, had enough to live on. I was happy to be there and write.
Pankaj Mishra -
Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
Karin Slaughter -
I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
Zara Cox
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The one thing that people don't get about GE is that, to the people who work here, it's not a company. It's not just a job. You feel like you're part of a 120-year-old ever-growing, ever-improving family.
Jeffrey R. Immelt -
There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.
Pat Robertson -
People never notice anything.
J. D. Salinger -
Surviving the elements is working, but being on set and having to do a scene and being in a room with the same people who you actually enjoy and respect, your day project was easy.
Aldis Hodge -
I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
Maluma -
People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.
Brooks Atkinson