Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
Orhan Pamuk -
About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
Takeru Kobayashi -
Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
Laura Dern -
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
Finley Peter Dunne -
Venus favors the bold.
Ovid -
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
Taslima Nasrin
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
Rachel Kushner -
But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.
Bayard Taylor -
Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.'
Carlos Pena, Jr. -
The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen
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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
Patrick O'Brian -
I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
Garrett Dillahunt -
Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.
Gary Wright -
Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
Talulah Riley -
My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
K. Eric Drexler -
My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses.
Randall Park
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Non optuma haec sunt neque ut ego aequom censeo : verum meliora sunt quam quae deterruma.
Plautus -
Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.
Vernon Duke -
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Mark Twain -
There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
Earl Campbell -
It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.
Brooks Atkinson -
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
Abraham Lincoln