Jonathan Raban Quotes
Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure of an 18-year-old child for a far college has to be treated as a very benign form of the disease.Jonathan Raban
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We continue to be bullish on China.
Carlos Ghosn -
I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
Rachele Brooke Smith -
Think and grow rich.
Napoleon Hill -
I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
Malcolm Wilson -
One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
Jack Keane -
Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
Xavier Dolan
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Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
Jack Hannah -
Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
Daisy Berkowitz -
I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.
Salma Hayek -
Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.
Haley Barbour -
To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
Barry Unsworth -
ISIS itself, it draws its central belief system from the Koran and from the writings of the Prophet Muhammad. That is undeniable. And it's a medieval interpretation of it. It is a literal interpretation of it.
Jack Keane -
After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
Yakov Smirnoff -
I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.
Gary Oldman -
The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
Karen Kain -
However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.
Ibrahim Rugova
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I'm happy going home early and working out and just being a mother and being a wife.
Kim Alexis -
I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!
Angela Lansbury -
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
H. L. Mencken -
What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?
Lewis Mumford -
The best advice comes from people who don't give advice.
Matthew McConaughey -
Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure of an 18-year-old child for a far college has to be treated as a very benign form of the disease.
Jonathan Raban