Ernest Bramah Quotes
The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.Ernest Bramah
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Getting recognized and doing shoots and signing on partnerships and signing on deals, that's all great, and I'm so appreciative of that, but it's more the reward that's the most satisfying. I know the importance of working hard, and I appreciate pretty much everything that has come my way; I don't take any of it for granted.
Carli Lloyd -
The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can't bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote.
J. C. Watts -
The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
Harold Wilson -
It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
Cameron van der Burgh -
I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.
Caitlyn Jenner
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
Dana Perino -
I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
Frances McDormand -
At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.
Dan Quinn -
People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
Here's the thing - I'm single, I haven't been married, I don't have kids yet. If I do have kids I would be interested to see them in my life, so here's a movie for kids and I'm in there and I'm supposed to be kind of funny for kids.
Garry Shandling -
I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.
Major Taylor
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Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.
Jack Valenti -
Mums ask me how to get their husbands off the couch as well as asking me to marry them. But kids ask me to get their mums and dads to play with them more as well.
Magnus Scheving -
I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.
Jack White The White Stripes -
We should realise that Hollywood is not obliged to write roles for Asian actors.
Kabir Bedi -
As I have often said, she has two styles of acting: with or without the beard.
Louise Rennison -
You don't have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can't help but make a good movie.
Quentin Tarantino
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Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.
Albert Einstein -
On retirement savings: Gone today, here tomorrow.
Catherine Crook de Camp -
I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to pay attention to the forensics: the empirical facts on the ground.
Will Self -
The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.
Ernest Bramah