Joe Orton Quotes
Truscott: Do you realize what I'm doing here?McLeavy: No. Your every action has been a mystery to me.Truscott: That is as it should be. The process by which the police arrive at the solution to a mystery is, in itself, a mystery.Joe Orton
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Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.
Felipe VI of Spain -
Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
Madisen Beaty -
The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.
Dan Jenkins -
I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
Kajal Aggarwal -
Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?
Jack Ma -
When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.
Dan Rosensweig
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Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.
LaMarr Woodley -
I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.
Gaby Hoffmann -
But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
Olivier Martinez -
I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?
Laura Bell Bundy -
Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
Tahl Raz -
'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.
Rachael Taylor
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Having competed themselves, my father and my uncle are very passionate about motorsport, so I inherited it from them.
Pastor Maldonado -
People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
Yair Lapid -
Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Does anyone actually think I'm going to call Tiger Woods and tell him what to do with his swing one day, and he's going to go out and do it, simple as that? It doesn't work like that.
Hank Haney -
Any time you speak to people about their posture, you learn about their most recent investment activity. When someone just bought stocks, they tend to be bullish; someone who just sold is bearish.
Barry Ritholtz -
I love working with really early stage startups where the outcome is still in doubt. Maybe they'll go on to greatness, or maybe they'll never get off the runway at all.
Sam Altman
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
Baha'u'llah -
The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class of unnamed and unnameable sin, and then damn any individual in the alleged class, however innocent he may be.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
Is it possible to observe without the observer?
Jiddu Krishnamurti -
The main difference between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives are honest about it. We're kind of dorks about it. We are kind of like Dungeons and Dragons geeks.
Jonah Goldberg -
Truscott: Do you realize what I'm doing here?McLeavy: No. Your every action has been a mystery to me.Truscott: That is as it should be. The process by which the police arrive at the solution to a mystery is, in itself, a mystery.
Joe Orton