Geoff Dyer Quotes
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
Queen Latifah -
If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.
Florentijn Hofman -
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster -
I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
Yahya Jammeh -
A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
Ovid
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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
Carl Friedrich Gauss -
I think it's really important whilst you're a young actor to try as many new things as possible... to try and do something you haven't necessarily been seen doing before.
Ed Speleers -
No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
Ira Hayes -
I'm really proud that the LGBT community has gotten behind me because, as I said, I am part of the community, so I do as much as I possibly can for our community and for our rights, so it's nice that everyone is supporting me as well.
Tabatha Coffey -
Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
Yo-Yo Ma -
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
B. H. Liddell Hart -
I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.
Aaron Paul -
The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Nathan Hale -
Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
Abhishek Bachchan
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Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.
Nancy Meyers -
I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.
Jon Gordon Langseth Jr. -
Where dance is, there is the devil.
John Chrysostom -
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
Jean Rostand -
Certainly there are many Congress members who have been arrested in the past on immigration issues and will continue to because we all understand that staying silent is not an option.
Pramila Jayapal -
My evangelical phase about Burning Man is well and truly in the past.
Geoff Dyer