Peter De Vries Quotes
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.Peter De Vries
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So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.
Pat Boone -
I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.
Cara Delevingne -
But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
Abu Bakar Bashir -
A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
Samuel Butler -
You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.
Pat Gillick -
We discovered a mechanism which is like the garbage machine of the body. We need to remove damaged proteins and create new ones in their place, and we discovered the machine that does this.
Aaron Ciechanover
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
Samuel Lover -
Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
Naomi Klein -
Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
Salman Rushdie -
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
N. Scott Momaday -
I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
Adam Brody -
It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.
Ralph Chaplin
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
Rachel Brosnahan -
Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
Edgar Mitchell -
I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.
Kate Beckinsale -
Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.
Ian Anderson -
I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra playing my own material would be incredible.
Laura Mvula -
KWMR is my radio station, and I intend to have a job there as I get older. That's what I'm lobbying for. They don't need me. They've got plenty of people. But let's see if I can make myself indispensable.
Frances McDormand
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Nobody's impressed back home. All my friends were going, 'Oh right, so you're doing a play up in Leeds? Another depressing one is it? Do you mind if we don't bother coming?' I love that.
Maxine Peake -
I hate chapped lips.
Karamo Brown -
Forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable.
Octavia E. Butler -
I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.
Antony Sher -
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Peter De Vries