Peter Blair Henry Quotes
Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century Botswana's gross domestic product per capita grew faster than that of any other country on the planet. The once-labeled 'Third World' is edging its way into the 'First World.'Peter Blair Henry
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For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.
Omari Hardwick -
All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.
F. Sionil Jose -
I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.
Idina Menzel -
People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless their hearts, it would come out Carol Lawrence.
Vicki Lawrence -
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
Mae West -
Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.
Eddie Redmayne
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My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.
Lapo Elkann -
My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
Eddie Izzard -
To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
H. L. Mencken -
My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.
Barrett Foa -
I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
Nancy Gibbs
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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
Viktor E. Frankl -
Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.
Taylor Swift -
In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.
Jack Harbaugh -
By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
Lao Tzu -
People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
Olivier Megaton -
When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.
Iqbal Quadir
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You have a mind. And you have other people. Start with those, and change the world.
Elizabeth Coleman -
It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no going back, and you'd be miserable if you did.
Douglas Coupland -
When you talk about inspiration, I draw inspiration from life. The people that I work with.
Jamie Brewer -
Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century Botswana's gross domestic product per capita grew faster than that of any other country on the planet. The once-labeled 'Third World' is edging its way into the 'First World.'
Peter Blair Henry