Johan Huizinga Quotes
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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
Carine Roitfeld -
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
Karl Kraus -
Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
Natalie Wood -
The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
Salman Rushdie -
I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
Aaron Ciechanover -
I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
Val Kilmer
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It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.
Patrick Kane -
I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
Rachelle Lefevre -
I like being unconventional.
Florence Griffith Joyner -
There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
Wangari Maathai -
It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
F. H. Bradley -
Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
Ieyasu Tokugawa
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
Eamon de Valera -
It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
Jack White The White Stripes -
Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.
Maajid Nawaz -
I pity Americans for their very bad fruits. Your 'mango' is cucumber. The only thing I really miss about Egypt is mangoes.
Bassem Youssef -
Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
Uta Hagen -
I have an existential crisis every time I walk into a bookshop, knowing that I'm not going to read all the books before I die.
Talulah Riley
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I'd rather be by myself than be spending any time or energy on somebody that I didn't feel sure about.
Blake Lively -
I am someone who places great value on the detail. That was always the case, even in my days as a racing driver.
Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda -
It feels really good that people are connecting to my music so much.
Jillian Rose Banks -
The best part about living in New York is that you are able to play with different people in different styles in the same week. It's really part of who I am as a musical person. I try to incorporate everything that I encounter.
Anat Cohen -
I spent almost 25 years at Qualcomm before joining Microsoft, so in a sense, I grew up at one company. During that time, I made a very big shift from the engineering side to the business side.
Peggy Johnson -
If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.
Johan Huizinga