George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.
Haley Reinhart -
The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
Navjot Singh Sidhu -
I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
Karl Lagerfeld -
There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
Dan Gilbert -
I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
Zoe Foster Blake -
Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
Venus Williams
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I don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life.
Felicity Kendal -
It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
Zane Grey -
Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
Yoko Ono -
It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
Ted Hughes -
What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.
Barry Commoner -
I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think, in essence, what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.
Karl Urban
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As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.
R. L. Stine -
I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.
P. J. Harvey -
What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Carl Sagan -
Town-scapes are changing. The open-plan city belongs in the past - no more ramblas, no more pedestrian precincts, no more left banks and Latin quarters. We're moving into the age of security grilles and defensible space. As for living, our surveillance cameras can do that for us. People are locking their doors and switching off their nervous systems.
J. G. Ballard -
The point, being indivisible, occupies no space. That which occupies no space is nothing. The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another.
Leonardo da Vinci
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When you're staring at your phone to navigate and being led places, you do become less aware of your environment, and the journey becomes kind of automated. There is an aliveness that comes with having to puzzle out directions for yourself. And you have to ask other people for help, which creates opportunity for social connection.
Franklin Foer -
Though music transcends language, culture and time, and though notes are the same, Indian music is unique because it is evolved, sophisticated and melodies are defined.
Dayananda Saraswati -
I think the millions of people who had been able to renegotiate their mortgages so they are paying lower interest rates are better off.
David Axelrod -
The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.
John Paul Stevens -
Heartbreak is life educating us.
George Bernard Shaw