Jimmy Breslin Quotes
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I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.
Ralph Allen -
The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
Maira Kalman -
I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
Zaha Hadid -
You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.
Patrick Swayze -
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
Walid Jumblatt
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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
Octavio Paz -
Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
Tammy Faye Bakker -
Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
Iris DeMent -
'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
B. B. King -
I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
Gautam Singhania
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
Manny Pacquiao -
I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
B. B. King -
The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
Ida B. Wells -
When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.
Tamron Hall -
Mom still has a huge, beautifully decorated Christmas tree. The whole family comes together after midnight mass and has the traditional plum cake and wine. We spend the night at mom's home, and in the morning we wake up and open the presents. In the afternoon, we sit down to have a traditional Christmas lunch.
Malaika Arora Khan -
I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.
Garth Stein
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You're really lucky as an artist if you get a role that changes you as a person.
Matt Bomer -
I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.
Naveen Andrews -
Just because Pluto or comets aren't as big as Jupiter doesn't mean they are not scientifically important - indeed, just the reverse is often true. Sometimes, great things come in small packages.
Alan Stern -
When I was younger, I was nervous and didn't have a huge amount of confidence as an actor. Comedy is something - you know when you're getting it right because you can hear. And you can hear if you're not getting it right! I like to create interesting, weird characters, and they're often best in comedies.
Lucy Punch -
There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.
George Papandreou -
The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.
Jimmy Breslin