Buchi Emecheta Quotes
I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back.Buchi Emecheta
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Another occupation might have been better.
F. H. Bradley -
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Butler -
There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
Octavia Spencer -
My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.
Jacob Dalton -
The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
Yash Chopra -
I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.
Jack Nicklaus
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My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
Kary Mullis -
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
Salvador Dali -
The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
Sam Mendes -
I shot a movie with Nicole Kidman that I got cut out of - it was crap anyways.
Q-Tip -
Ray Harryhausen's 'Sinbad' picture was the first film I remember seeing. I was two years old when it came out, and it changed my life forever. I had nightmares about dragons and stuff for years - and loved it!
Warren Spector -
It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.
Sam Harris
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Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.
Harold Rosenberg -
I write... for laymen and scientists, because the reader who is interested in any activity which needs thought and judgement is... a person to whom science can be made to speak, It is not he who is deaf, but the specialists who have been dumb-the specialists in the arts as well as in the sciences.
Jacob Bronowski -
'I didn’t want to scare you. We don’t want to scare anyone.''No? Well, sometimes it’s a good thing to scare people. Sometimes fear is all that will keep them from doing stupid things.'
Octavia E. Butler -
God is personal, but personal in an incomprehensible way, in so far as the conception of his personality surpasses all our views of personality.
Karl Barth -
Pensions are the favors of the powerful, and dangerous to any great intellect. It is only here and there down throughout the ages that a Voltaire is born who does not fall a victim to their blandishments.
Clarence Darrow -
The only solution for dealing with the IRA is to kill 600 people in one night.
Alan Clark Dire Straits
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I'd always been treated like an object, not like a human.
Bijou Phillips -
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE -
The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
Charles Horton Cooley -
It did not last: the devil howling "Ho! Let Einstein be!" restored the status quo.
J. C. Squire -
I think of myself as a fairly decent human being and it gives me great pain to be considered for all the mean S.O.B.s that come along. I've played bird decapitators, puppy stranglers, woman beaters, wife poisoners, child molesters - every goddamn thing you can think of. It was quite scene there for a while. But I think the image is changing...I hope to God the old image is fading from people's minds.
George C. Scott -
I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back.
Buchi Emecheta