Jonathan Swift Quotes
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
Viggo Mortensen -
I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
Halsey -
You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.
Ed Harris -
If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
Damon Albarn Gorillaz -
I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
Karen Salmansohn -
Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
Jackie Collins
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
Warren E. Burger -
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
Pat Barker -
I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street.
Ice T -
I think recharging is important, absolutely. Every now and then, you need maybe a couple of weeks to just chill out and let your emotions balance themselves out a little bit.
Malin Akerman -
Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.
Bear Grylls -
Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
Carly Fiorina -
If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane.
Warren Spector -
I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I'd listen to Wanda Jackson and think, 'How did she do that?,' and lift the needle and try it myself.
Imelda May -
I was in fittings for the first costume even before I knew I was even going to be 'Deathlok.'
J. August Richards -
I don't see any reason to discriminate against homosexuals.
Yitzhak Rabin
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Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
Edmond de Goncourt -
By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
Tacitus -
Most people just laugh when they hear that the secret to success is giving. Then again, most people are nowhere near as successful as they wish they were.
Bob Burg -
Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor.
William R. Alger -
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
Jonathan Swift