Walt Whitman Quotes
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Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
Maelle Gavet -
I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
Hansika Motwani -
I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
Mal Peet -
My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
Ori Gersht -
When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.
Zoe Kravitz -
You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
Abhishek Bachchan -
When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
Raine Maida -
I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
Gary Wright -
It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
Owen Hart -
What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
Kate Moss -
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
Wanda Sykes -
It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.
Yolandi Visser -
People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
Ed Koch -
I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.
Mal Peet -
I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.
Patrick Troughton -
I've always been attracted to action stuff.
Danai Gurira
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The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .
Barack Obama -
A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water, and suddenly you see all the colours and patterns in the dull stone, and it’s marvelous for the stone and marvelous for the teacher.
Elizabeth Hay -
The image of God always abides in the soul, whether this image be obsolete and clouded over as to amount to almost nothing; or whether it be obscured or disfigured, as is the case with sinners; or whether it be clear and beautiful as is the case with the just.
John Calvin -
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
Abraham Lincoln -
The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.
William Osler -
He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
Walt Whitman