John Gay Quotes
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
Edgardo Osorio -
Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
Ian Hacking -
I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
Dan Brown -
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
Natalie Clifford Barney -
I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.
Zhang Xin -
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
Malcolm X
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There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents.
Victoria Strauss -
My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
Viktor Vekselberg -
My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.
Vijay Mallya -
The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
Ralph Hodgson -
There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.
Jack Wild -
When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
Orlando Bloom
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The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and... so having that darkness there opens another door.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.
Tadashi Yanai -
It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with; it doesn't sound too alien. I think that's the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. That's an area that I like to explore a lot.
Flume -
A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.
Valentina Tereshkova -
The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.
Vince Cable -
Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
Caio Fonseca
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To believe in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.
Joan Didion -
I want to have a good vote in the Senate so we send the message that the Republicans and the Democrats are together in favor of immigration reform.
Bob Menendez -
One can be resolved to promote good, or one can be resolved to be a good person- Two separate things that are mutually exclusive
Max Frisch -
I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
Tamra Davis -
... the Eternal turned his attention to the three shades who stood humbly and yet hopefully before him. The quick, with so short a time to live, when they talk of themselves, talk too much; but the dead, with eternity before them, are so verbose that only angels could listen to them with civility.
W. Somerset Maugham -
That raven on yon left-hand oak(Curse on his ill-betiding croak!)Bodes me no good.
John Gay