John Grierson Quotes
Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.John Grierson
Quotes to Explore
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Rick Santorum has so much potential and so much eagerness to serve our country.
Foster Friess -
I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
Warren Giles -
I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
Nate Silver -
I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
Nancy Gibbs -
Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too aggressive and too rigidly theoretical: he would have wrought havoc in the Bauhaus through his fanatic attitude, which ran counter to my own broader approach.
Walter Gropius
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I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
Youssou N'Dour -
I would like to thank my colleagues for voting a Social Democrat prime minister and to assure them I will vote a liberal president, as well.
Victor Ponta -
For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
Zoe Sugg -
I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
Barbara Mertz -
I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
Tanya Roberts -
The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
Ira Glasser
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I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy.
Wendi Deng Murdoch -
I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
Candice Swanepoel -
All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
Young Jeezy -
I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'
Barry Larkin -
Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
Galeazzo Ciano -
I'm a tall woman. At work, that means a lot of my co-stars have to stand next to me on apple crates. But apparently, my height bodes well in the fashion world.
Taylor Schilling
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Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.
Kage Baker -
About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don't believe in it. It's something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.
Paulo Coelho -
A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.
Chuck Close -
My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.
Manny Montana -
'Mission' was a mind game. The ideal mission was getting in and getting out without anyone ever knowing we were there.
Martin Landau -
Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.
John Grierson