Carlos Drummond de Andrade Quotes
Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.Carlos Drummond de Andrade
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
Edmund Phelps -
I love to cook. I could never give that up.
Kate Winslet -
Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
Baha'u'llah -
The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
Jack Valenti -
And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
Inge de Bruijn -
Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
Edgar Ramirez
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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
Wayne Rogers -
There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
Quico Canseco -
I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.
Abbie Cornish -
So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi -
It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
A. E. van Vogt -
I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
Adam Lambert
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I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
Dana Carvey -
Foie gras is sold as an expensive delicacy in some restaurants and shops. But no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese who are abused and killed to make it.
Kate Winslet -
I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.
Pamela Anderson -
Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.
Banks -
I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything!
Nancy Cartwright -
There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.
Natalie Zea
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Memorizing lines isn't really hard. Only with really hard words and stuff.
Andrew Lawrence -
There are people that I am in love with, totally in love with them. I would die for them. I love Michelangelo. I love Charlie Chaplin with all my heart. I love Walt Disney. These are the people I am nuts over. These are my people. I love the great ones.
Michael Jackson -
The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.
Everett Dirksen -
I think there needs to be a way to allow people to become educated if they've paid taxes, they've been here a long time. And I think, actually, we need to think about young people are not making the decision on whether to come here.
Zoe Lofgren -
Academic environments are generally characterised by the presence of peole who claim to understand more than in fact they do. Linguistic Philosophy has produced a great revolution, generating people who claim not to understand when in fact they do. Some achieve great virtuosity at it. Any beginner in philosophy can manage not to understand, say, Hegel, but I have heard people who were so advanced that they knew how not to understand writers of such limpid clarity as Bertrand Russell or A.J. Ayer.
Ernest Gellner -
Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
Carlos Drummond de Andrade