Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
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I had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.
Canelo Alvarez -
I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
Madeleine Albright -
It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
Harriet Harman -
I love heavy music. I keep Flume nice and melodic, so I save the angry, testosterone-fueled heavy stuff for What So Not. I think it's a good defining thing for the two projects.
Flume -
How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
Oscar Isaac -
Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
Iris Apfel
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
Nana Mouskouri -
The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
Daley Thompson -
The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
Dana Perino -
People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.
Adam Grant -
My work was entirely nonfiction.
Laura Hillenbrand -
One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.
Kara Swisher
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True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
Harold Brodkey -
Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
Federica Montseny -
Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
Edie Brickell -
While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
Barney Frank -
My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.
Zooey Deschanel -
One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
Barbara Smith
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The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.
Samantha Barks -
If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
Nancy Pelosi -
My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.
Nathan Fillion -
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.
Harrison Birtwistle