Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
Iain Duncan Smith -
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
Eddie Izzard -
I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.
Ebon Moss-Bachrach -
Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
Uma Thurman -
If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
P. J. O'Rourke -
If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
Olin Miller
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
Damon Albarn Blur -
My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
Okky Madasari -
French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
Cameron Diaz -
If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
Aaron Levie -
I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
Mallory Ortberg -
I grew up in L.A. I actually grew up in the Valley, which was a pretty amazing place to grow up because everybody has nice, big backyards, and I was kind of a little nature being.
Banks
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
T. C. Boyle -
One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.
Nadia Comaneci -
We need to work tirelessly to help create new jobs and good jobs here in Florida.
Ted Deutch -
I'm just trying to play against ethnicity. I got to play a guy from Louisiana in 'The Pacific' named Merriell Shelton, and now I'm playing Elliot Alderman.
Rami Malek -
I consider myself a little weak.
Lamar Odom -
This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.
Gary Hart
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Chaos can be incredibly creative.
Mark Rylance -
I don't always think it's necessary for somebody to be nice all the time.
Jake Gyllenhaal -
And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.
Ulrich Beck -
Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.
Elizabeth Kostova -
I love Toronto, It's the best city.
Jacqueline MacInnes Wood -
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
Petrarch