John Gay Quotes
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
F. H. Bradley -
You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
G-Eazy -
This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
Harold Brodkey -
I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
Ralph Fiennes -
We believe that when you make Black America better - you make all of America better.
Tavis Smiley -
I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
Laura Harrier
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
Edmund Hillary -
Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
Oscar Isaac -
I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
Young Buck -
I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
A. J. Liebling -
Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition.
Nancy Kress -
I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
Jack Ma
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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Salvador Dali -
People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
Halle Berry -
Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out.
Ian Mckellen -
I used to sneak into my mother's closet and try to wear her lingerie to school.
Vanity -
In the acting community in New York we call 'Law & Order' 'grad school,' because everyone eventually does a 'Law & Order.' My first one was in 1995, which was a year after I got out of school. Matthew Blanchard was the character's name.
Dallas Roberts -
I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating.
Katarina Witt
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Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory.
Bernie Taupin -
In America today, unfortunately, the right wing has been totally commandeered by the Tea Party, and it's a bad thing for our party.
Jon Huntsman, Sr. -
If you're not in a place where you're grateful that your show keeps getting renewed, and you can't figure out a way to keep it fresh, you should pick another career.
Busy Philipps -
People used to think that biological clocks were not only mysterious, they were seen almost as miracles. This is no longer the case.
Jeffrey C. Hall -
So I submit to you that what we represent is a Fifth Column, a Fifth Column that represents the best aspirations that human community is capable of, a Fifth Column that is willing to look at the structure of the psyche in contrast to the mess of society, and willing to dream.
Terence McKenna -
Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!
John Gay