John Lyly Quotes
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Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
Barbara Deming -
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo -
It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.
Laura Lippman -
I used to wonder because I never thought I looked like either of my parents, but now I think I look like a conglomeration.
Talia Balsam -
That's the one criteria I have - I can't do an impression of someone I don't like.
Kate McKinnon -
There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.
Ralph Bunche
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In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life.
Washed Out -
I had a very funny family.
Zach Braff -
The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?
Floyd Abrams -
Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.
Hans Selye -
I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the younger writer about the perils to come. I think maybe the most dangerous influence is to think you have all the answers and should be giving counsel.
Rachel Kushner -
I never think about what I want. It's about what you want to give to other people.
Oprah Winfrey
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Why, what a wonderful piece of luck! Here is a red rose! I have never seen any rose like it in all my life. It is so beautiful that I am sure it has a long Latin name.
Oscar Wilde -
The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought.
Samuel Adams -
Against the teachings of eternal torture, of the vicarious atonement, of the infallibility of the Bible, I levelled all the strength of my brain and tongue, and I exposed the history of the Christian Church with unsparing hand, its persecutions, its religious wars, its cruelties, its oppressions.
Annie Besant -
I had never heard of Walter Young before, and I do not expect to hear from him again.
Conrad Black -
People grow up loving the Yankees and will tell you, and so many people despise the Yankees, and they come from all over the United States.
Curtis Granderson -
Becoming successful is a relentless pursuit. It's good that it's that way: When it does come, you learn to know how to appreciate it, and know how lucky you are to be doing something that you love so much.
Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
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Music is something I do full-time in real life. I was doing music long before I was even thinking about acting.
Keith Stanfield -
Fear is a belief - beliefs can be changed.
Abraham Low -
People don't go to see things in the theater for the same reasons that I do. And movies are about mass audiences. And so moviegoers are going for a different kind of drug than for a certain kind of literary quality.
Mike White -
I take any opportunity I can to raise our country's flag really high and get some shining positive light on things over there.
Kirsty Coventry -
A clere conscience is a sure carde.
John Lyly