Peter Garrett Quotes
I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.Peter Garrett Midnight Oil
Quotes to Explore
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
Iris Apfel -
It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
Marc Almond Soft Cell -
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel Johnson -
Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
Barton Gellman -
One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
B. Carroll Reece -
Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.
Pamela Meyer
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I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.
S. E. Hinton -
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
V. S. Naipaul -
I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
Salman Rushdie -
The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
Felipe VI of Spain -
When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
Dalai Lama
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
Haile Gebrselassie -
It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
J. D. Vance -
Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
Nadia Boulanger -
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
Malcolm X -
There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
Patrick Swayze -
My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
Harrison Birtwistle
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TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.
Mads Mikkelsen -
I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years.
David Chalmers -
I always looked up to great actors and great films. A lot of my family would be like, 'Come on, you should get into these plays that are going on.' I'm like, 'Nah, nah, music's my thing.' I just fell into it. I moved to Atlanta, got with an agency out there, started doing little voiceover commercials, and it started getting kind of fun.
Jacob Latimore -
I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the language is less important than if it's a good film.
Patricia Riggen -
I think having children is the most amazing thing.
Rachel Stevens -
I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.
Peter Garrett Midnight Oil