Peter Greenaway Quotes
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The 'Vanity Fair' article was interesting to do because it was the first time I ever really had the opportunity to be absolutely truthful with a reporter about every aspect of my life.
Caitlyn Jenner -
What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.
Samuel Lover -
After graduating high school, Betty attended the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, the alma mater of both her parents. My mother relocated to New York because she refused to accept the oppressive racism of the Jim Crow south.
Ilyasah Shabazz -
In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
Sam Kinison -
It's not the winter that bothers me – it's the summers.
Walt Alston -
As long I still have a breath left in me I will dedicate myself fully to China's reform.
Wen Jiabao
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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
Oscar Wilde -
As a Business Ambassador, I am delighted to help both new and established British designers receive the recognition they deserve in the global fashion arena.
Tamara Mellon -
'Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often comment on my halo. But of course, I couldn't see. And he always - he had pictures of Jesus with these beautiful halos. And so I asked him if he'd write a song with me about Jesus' halo.
Abigail Washburn -
Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll.
Yoko Ono -
Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.
R. L. Stine
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We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.
Gary Hamel -
Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.
Isaac Barrow -
I feel I belong in the movie business and I belong in the security business. It's a natural for me.
Sam J. Jones -
The United Nations has a proud record of helping millions of people in mine-affected countries.
Ban Ki-moon -
I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
I am not a multimillionaire. I don't own a yacht or a Ferrari. I live in a 60-square- metre flat. My needs are simple.
Ferran Adria
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Hi! handsome hunting man Fire your little gun. Bang! Now the animal is dead and dumb and done. Nevermore to peep again, creep again, leap again, Eat or sleep or drink again. Oh, what fun!
Walter de La Mare -
To whom thy secret thou dost tell, to him thy freedom thou dost sell.
James Howell -
As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova -
If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.
Lawrence G. Lovasik -
Transparency is one of our core principles, We treat the food with integrity. We don't commodify it beyond recognition.
Daniel Lubetzky -
All religions have always hated females.
Peter Greenaway