Joseph de Maistre Quotes
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Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
Sam Donaldson -
You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
Natasha Calis -
I think beautiful independent films are made, and I think they're as close to what theater can be because they're not loaded with all of the extra stuff. It's human, and it's more organic, but theater is very unique... It's a different connection altogether.
Sam Underwood -
I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
Oprah Winfrey -
Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.
Taylor Swift
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
Oliver Reed -
The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.
Patrick O'Brian -
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
Mahatma Gandhi -
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Carl Jung -
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco -
I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life.
S. Jay Olshansky
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I was thinking 'Love Story', obviously, was a romantic film of that time.
Felicity Jones -
People want to think that staying in shape costs a lot of money. They couldn't be more wrong. It doesn't cost anything to walk. And it's probably a lot cheaper to go to the corner store and buy vegetables than take a family out for fast food.
Florence Griffith Joyner -
When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation.
Ma Jun -
I love all sports! I'm always impressed by athletes. I also love watching the Olympic Games. In high school, I played co-ed soccer and basketball. I really enjoyed both of those sports, but I have to admit basketball wasn't my calling.
Olga Fonda -
You looked so intense. Whatever you were saying, you seemed to mean it, and it wasn't amusing at all. Started quite a fashion. People keep looking for purpose now. Complicates everything.
Orson Scott Card -
What is this thing called love? This funny thing called love? Just who can solve this mystery? Why should it make a fool of me?
Cole Porter
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Life is never going to be perfect, as much as we want it to be, and I have to lead by example.
Patsy Kensit -
My performances may have elements that some may find entertaining, but that's not my main purpose.
Vaginal Davis -
Christians living in a democracy should always vote if they can. If they cannot in conscience bring themselves to vote for any of the candidates on offer (in the UK quite often there are several candidates for a parliamentary seat) they might consider deliberately spoiling the ballot paper as a sad protest which still says 'but I believe in being involved'.
N. T. Wright -
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Aristotle -
In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.
Joseph de Maistre