George Gissing Quotes
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I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.
Aaron Lazar -
I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
Rafael dos Anjos -
People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
Walter Ulbricht -
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
Oscar Wilde -
I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
Fernando Botero
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
Naguib Mahfouz -
Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
Van Wyck Brooks -
But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
Wendell Willkie -
Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
T. E. Hulme -
There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.
Carlene Carter
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We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.
Quincy Jones -
When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'
Laura Esquivel -
There's something pure about our bloodline: There are no accidental kids of gay parents. Every single gay parent desperately, passionately wanted to be a parent. That's neat, and I hope we can keep it that way.
B. D. Wong -
I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa in a couple of sports, so he was a very positive person and someone who encouraged you to be your best and give your best with everything that you do.
Gail Kelly -
You lose attitude when you feel too comfortable, so I prefer to wear clothes that have a certain edge to them.
Carine Roitfeld -
The economic issues are most vital for us and it is of the highest importance that we should fight our biggest enemies – Poverty, unemployment. Whether it is agriculture or industrial development, or for that matter, development in other fields, the basic fact remains – that it would serve the largest number of our people.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
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The first Western attempt to save Africa from itself was in the late 19th century. It was led by Christian missionaries who claimed to be seeking to end poverty, disease and the slave trade.
Andrew Mwenda -
My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this gap where I was doing graffiti in high school and making as much traditional art.
Alec Monopoly -
What I am condemning is that one power, with a president George W. Bush who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust.
Nelson Mandela -
That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
George Gissing