Peter Gay Quotes
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
Sam Riley -
I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.
A. S. Byatt -
I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
Karl Jaspers -
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
Harper Lee -
If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.
Fabrice Grinda -
Actually, 'Die Hard' was the first movie I ever saw in the theater. When I was a newborn, my parents were going stir-crazy in the house, and they put me in the bassinet, and I slept through 'Die Hard' in the theater as an infant.
Haley Joel Osment
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I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.
Nat King Cole -
Critics have a job to do. They do not criticise you without reason.
Abhishek Bachchan -
Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
E. M. Forster -
I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
Walt Disney -
My father is my idol, and I have grown up watching his films. He is my biggest influence and inspiration. I have learnt a lot from him, and I am who I am because of him. I'm extremely grateful to him for that.
Mahesh Babu -
Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren’t interested in), people don’t speak their beliefs easily, or publicly.
Edward R. Murrow
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A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master. 'People say you are a genius. Are you?' he asked. 'You might say so.' said the Master, none too modestly. 'And what makes one a genius?' 'The ability to recognize.' 'Recognize what?' 'The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.'
Anthony de Mello -
I'm going to be the best singer in the World, ... the best singer that ever was.1
Frank Sinatra -
A part is greater than the whole; By hints are mysteries told. The fringes of eternity, - God's sweeping garment-fold, In that bright shred of glittering sea, I reach out for and hold.
Lucy Larcom -
As a teenager, I didn't want to be an actor at all.
Alexander Skarsgard -
Leaders are meant to lead from the front, but at the same time, they are also meant to listen to what their followers are saying.
Cyril Ramaphosa -
The truth is I was nicely brought up and taught not to show my rage even though it was building up inside.
Andrea McLean
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Living in America means enjoying freedoms that people in many other countries cannot.
Charles B. Rangel -
We have a tough schedule this summer, so I have to plan my schedule wisely if I want to be able to last throughout the season.
Kim Clijsters -
I've had a guide dog since 1969. Not the same one, of course: I've had five.
David Blunkett -
You can watch TV and see experts of all different colours and hues. But the minute you get past nine o'clock and you're in primetime drama land, it's like entering another world, one that doesn't reflect the diversity of the society that we have in Britain in 2016.
Art Malik -
Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
Victoria Osteen -
Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.
Peter Gay