John Lukacs Quotes
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Life does not owe me a shred.
Valerie Harper -
That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
Marc Almond Soft Cell -
I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.
Raha Moharrak -
I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
Sam Kean -
It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
Forest Whitaker -
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
Walter Scott
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I would love to go to Ladakh - there are beautiful monasteries there and because I am from Himachal. I would love to go to Paris. I haven't been to New York, which I have heard a lot about. And, I would love to go to Kanyakumari. I think that would be interesting!
Yami Gautam -
You numb yourself so you're not terrified when you're on TV at 7 o'clock in the morning with Justin Bieber, who you just met a couple of days before, having to perform in front of millions of people.
Halsey -
In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.
Wang Shi -
Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
Edmund White -
If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
Bao Dai -
After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines from other websites.
Mallory Ortberg
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How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.
Vanessa Paradis -
It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
Irina Shayk -
Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's Navy'. And I think, 'Oh boy, here we go again'.
Mako -
Music isn't selling like it used to, but the one thing you can't steal or download is a live show experience or a T-shirt.
G-Eazy -
The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
Sally Mann
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I been all around the world and I haven't found a city that I'd rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles.
Ice Cube -
It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is...If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each...This is of the very essence of judicial duty.
John Marshall -
I am ever with those who practice Kriya Yoga. I will guide you to the
Lahiri Mahasaya -
At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.
Erica Jong -
Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
Larry Bird -
Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.
John Lukacs