Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
Haile Gebrselassie -
For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
Gary Hume -
I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.
Garry Shandling -
I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
Larry Fitzgerald -
One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
Nancy Kerrigan
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My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.
Rachel Cusk -
I get to meet different directors and different people.
Quvenzhane Wallis -
We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.
Malcolm X -
I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'
Gayle Forman -
Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.
Madeleine Stowe -
Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.
Samuel Goldwyn
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I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody.
Sam Shepard -
When I see Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk, it's only a picture. My imagination has to do some of the work there, to impute feeling and everything. We're talking about something that's so surreal, it's just not possible within the world as we know it. So that requires a form that is not so literal.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I have carried bills concerning Sudan. I've carried bills concerning Congo. I've carried bills concerning North Korea and Iran and Iraq.
Sam Brownback -
In chess, we have styles - like in any other field. There are also fashions in the kinds of systems that people play. So I'm trying to know my opponent as much as possible.
Garry Kasparov -
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
Bette Davis
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I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I'm not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.
Kevin Gates -
Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful land of consensus. In place of honest argument among consenting adults the politicians substitute a lullaby for frightened children: the pretense that conflict doesn't really exist, that we have achieved the blessed state in which we no longer need politics.
Lewis H. Lapham -
The God-honest truth is that Jeff and I just do what we do. You have no control. We didn't have control last year, or the year before either, or the year before that. We can only do what we do, which is to make the show that we love, continue to follow the path for the stories that we want to tell, tell great and compelling stories, week-to-week, that interest our fans, and really hope for the best.
J. H. Wyman -
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief...
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