Jorge Amado Quotes
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I believed I was invincible.
Lance Loud -
A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
Damien Hirst -
I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
Carl Lewis -
On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
Dan Feuerriegel -
I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
Carey Mulligan -
I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.
Rachel Nichols
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I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
Hannah Gadsby -
I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
Patricia Cornwell -
I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
Barry Bostwick -
I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
Valentino Rossi -
I don't know how much the other fighters make. But I need to tell you that, for myself, money is not the first consideration.
Fedor Emelianenko -
If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.
Kate Christensen
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The proliferation of bans fuels stereotypes and discriminates against a community.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
Otto Hahn -
When I was designing Mrs. Obama's dress, half of me was saying, 'What would Halston do?' The other half was saying, 'Be who you are.' Halston, me, America, India - it's been such a great combination. This is what makes me who I am, with the clean lines I learned from Halston and complicated Indian over-the-top Bollywood traditions.
Naeem Khan -
My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.
Kate DiCamillo -
I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.
C. S. Forester -
Bro, how are you going to tap on the neck, on the choke? Go to sleep, man. Be a man.
Rafael dos Anjos
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Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact that algebra and geometry are different in appearance. Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.
Omar Khayyam -
I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.
Ivor Novello -
If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate.
Martin Lawrence -
好雨知時節,當春乃發生。隨風潛入夜,潤物細無聲。
Du Fu -
I'm a massive hater of 3D. I don't like it at all. For me, you go to a movie theatre and you want to be taken to a place and transported to a place and be in that environment, and I know 3D is meant to do that, but the effect for me is the reverse. I feel like I'm looking though muddy water, and I can't really see the image.
Neill Blomkamp -
Night was running ahead of itself.
Jorge Amado