George Canning Quotes
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
Gary Coleman -
I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
Dan Aykroyd -
I am not a perfect 10 anymore. I can only try my best.
Nadia Comaneci -
I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
Felicia Day -
When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
Patrick Swayze -
You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.
Victoria Pendleton
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
E. V. Lucas -
You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
Harold Prince -
In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
B. B. King -
If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
Jack Ma -
My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
Karl Shapiro -
Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
Walter Lippmann
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It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'
M. Ward -
Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
Barry Humphries -
I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
Patrick deWitt -
A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.
Gary David Goldberg -
Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.
M. J. Rose -
I think I have a very good reputation amongst the gay population and among the whole country because I stood up on the issue of gay rights. It is not easy to stand up on that issue when you are single and male in New York City. I did it anyway.
Ed Koch
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There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)
A. J. Liebling -
I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
A lot of young people don't have a lot of faith in politicians. You can't depend on what they say. They talk in circles. They don't speak the kind of language that has truth to them. I'm speaking differently.
Maxine Waters -
Let the inner ear listen to the voice of truth that is always speaking.
Ernest Holmes -
Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
George Canning