Joyce Grenfell Quotes
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
Ralph Marston -
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
Natalie Clifford Barney -
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
Mahatma Gandhi -
It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
Irvine Welsh -
There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
Nancy Gibbs -
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
Natalie Portman -
Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.
Wayne Allard -
We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public - but also to make sure that the government does not unduly infringe on the privacy rights of innocent citizens.
Adam Cohen -
For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
That was also my nickname in high school.
Pat Sajak -
I don't want to go to another roller-coaster ride of a movie. If I want that, I'll go to Magic Mountain. I'm really interested in the young directors that are doing different things in cinema. I think the movies people will hold onto are the Rushmores and the Being John Malkoviches. Those are the kind of films I want to do; that's what I'm passionate about.
Zooey Deschanel
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein -
The code core of the 2001 browser upgrade campaign was the first instance of capability detection in place of browser detection.
Jeffrey Zeldman -
The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.
Emmanuelle Beart -
I wouldn't know how to retire.
Nile Rodgers Chic -
War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.
Alva Myrdal -
It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
Lady Gregory
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What can you know about life at 14? I have learned a lot since, but you learn slowly. You get hit by many things and try to make sense of it.
Nadia Comaneci -
You never know what's going to happen next onstage.
Don Ho -
I haven't had a chance really to do a martial arts role, but I really want to. I want to act like Jackie Chan in a movie.
Brett Dier -
Whatever you are, always be a good one.
Brian Tracy -
Weep if you must Parting is hell But life goes on So sing as well.
Joyce Grenfell