Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
Barbara Januszkiewicz -
Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
Fabrice Grinda -
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
Carla Bley -
I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
Rachel Field -
People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
Zhang Yimou -
I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
Kate McKinnon
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Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.
Karl Lagerfeld -
When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
Sam Shepard -
Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
Nancy Farmer -
I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
Ferid Murad -
Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
Tabitha King -
I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.
Earl Browder
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
Adam Driver -
Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
Edmund Phelps -
Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.
W. L. George -
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone -
Putin has put Russia on a path to be a world power with global influence.
Jack Keane -
The terrorist attacks of 9/11 briefly disrupted celebrations of a world globalised by capital and consumption.
Pankaj Mishra
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The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.
Elliott Abrams -
If you read the fables, 'Beowulf,' for example, you will know something about the person who writes them, and I like that. Secondly, they will not be about individuals; they will be about community. Thirdly, they're all about moralizing. Fourthly, the way they express themselves takes its tone from the oral tradition.
Jim Crace -
Appointment viewing is dead, and I think it is going away.
Dana Brunetti -
Well there's nobody who has a more supportive husband than I do, and he has a business that he runs, and it's his own business, so he has work to do, my kids have school to do, I mean, people have - there are other things in life besides politics.
Caroline Kennedy -
I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.
Oscar Wilde