Gene Wilder Quotes
I want to do what I can lend my talents to, but I want it to be as a human being and not as a two-dimensional character.Gene Wilder
Quotes to Explore
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
Oriana Fallaci -
The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
A. R. Rahman -
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
H. L. Mencken -
It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
Barry Mann -
I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.
Vanessa Carlton -
I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
Oswald Chambers
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For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.
Yair Lapid -
Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
Jack Herer -
The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.
Nate Powell -
Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
Kapil Sibal -
A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
D. B. Weiss -
Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
Barbara Kingsolver -
Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
H. Rap Brown -
Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
Ramon Rodriguez -
I hate recording all the shows for the week in one day, because I want to be able to mention current events and pop culture. If Madonna punches Britney in the face today, I want to reference that on 'Wine Library TV' tomorrow. Monday's episode is always the best, because it's hot off the press.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
Victor Hugo -
How dull it is to have people defining you.
Octavia E. Butler
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Among various demands and charges I gave them, was, that the said flag should be delivered to me, and one of the United States' flags be received and hoisted in its place.
Zebulon Pike -
I find that so often this work can so easily overcome you and knock you out of balance and become all you think about and all you care about and all you feel is important in your life, and it's kind of the opposite. Relationships first and people first and then you can be a great performer.
Erin Davie -
I'm going to build an empire. I'm always writing for someone else. I want to be someone who has her fingerprints all over the pop charts.
Charli XCX -
I make really good pasta sauce. The secret to getting it right is just patience and love.
Banks -
I didn't even know I was considered plus-size until I was on the red carpet here in L.A. one day and a lady said, 'How do you feel about being a plus-sized girl in Hollywood?' I was like, 'What's she talking about?'
Jennifer Hudson -
I want to do what I can lend my talents to, but I want it to be as a human being and not as a two-dimensional character.
Gene Wilder