Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes
He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.Johann Kaspar Lavater
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
Patrick Ewing -
O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
Abu Bakr -
When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
Rafe Spall -
When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
Dan Quayle -
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
H. G. Wells
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson -
It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'
M. Ward -
People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
Wayne Coyne -
I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens to me - you could quantify it as good or bad - I romanticize it. I think along the lines of 'When that thing happened, it made me who I am.' That kind of thing. It's a different way of being romantic.
Zooey Deschanel -
I love the hip-hop nation.
Pam Grier -
I look up to Rihanna and Rita Ora. They obviously wear a lot of gold jewelry and have this urban feel to them.
Becky G
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
Yoko Ono -
When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
The chi of a room is important to me. If I walk into a hotel room and it doesn't feel right, I ask to change.
Abbey Lee Kershaw -
Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid.
Karen DeCrow -
When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable by the new devices.
Dana Priest -
The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader.
Bayard Rustin
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I'm not sexist, I'm just a realist.
Adam Carolla -
Is there something in my genetic makeup that makes me more at risk for heart disease? I believe there is. My father was the sign.
Corbin Bernsen -
I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or just been one. I certainly liked entertaining people and making jokes, but I don't know necessarily if that's what your child is prone to that you should necessarily put them in a real working industry at six years old.
Natasha Lyonne -
I think you find universal truth when you get really honest with yourself and you can reach people. If you go deep enough, you have that core feeling, and that feeling can transcend the details of your experience.
Rachel Platten -
Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth.
Albert Camus -
He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.
Johann Kaspar Lavater