John Hughes Quotes
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
Jack Henry Abbott -
I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
Canelo Alvarez -
It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
Zora Neale Hurston -
India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.
Narendra Modi -
In my own experience, I've found that it's very difficult to make peace with women. We tend to be competitive and feel angry.
Ottessa Moshfegh -
When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.
Taylor Swift
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If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.
Fidel Castro -
Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.
Barry Ritholtz -
I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'
Patrick Duffy -
I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.
Malala Yousafzai -
Fortified plant-based milks are delicious and contain all the calcium, protein, and vitamin D of dairy products but with none of the cholesterol, lactose, hormones, or cruelty found in cow's milk.
Ingrid Newkirk -
Think about Medusa, with the snakes. If you shoot a movie in Europe, the financiers are three snakes, and they all have opinions. In Hollywood there are, like, 20 snakes.
Daniel Espinosa
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My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.
Rachel Zoe -
I would love to play a superhero. I sometimes walk around thinking, 'If I were a superhero, what would my superpower be?'
Olga Fonda -
I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock.
Inara George -
Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.
Dan Ariely -
If you think of India in the 1980s, there weren't many writers in English around. The ones that were there, Amitav Ghosh or Vikram Seth, were living abroad or publishing from abroad.
Pankaj Mishra -
Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
Salman Rushdie
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What do you think God gave you more wealth than is requisite to satisfy your rational wants for, when you look around and see how many are in absolute need of that which you do not need? Can you not take the hint?
J. G. Holland -
Robert Plant is one of the nicest people you'll ever meet, never mind rock star. He's so down to earth.
Brian Setzer Stray Cats -
I don't know what you all believe, and I don't really care … but you have to admit that beliefs are odd. Lots of Christians wear crosses around their necks … you really think when Jesus comes back, he ever wants to see a fucking cross?
Bill Hicks -
It's been about ten years since I've worked with actors who knew their lines!
John Hughes