Russell Baker Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
Tamae Watanabe -
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
In many, many parts of the world, being a female, you're really just wallpaper. If you take care to blend in, no one would think in a thousand years that you were doing anything suspicious.
Valerie Plame -
I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.
Nate Diaz -
Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
Tamsin Greig -
Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn't use to wear really that much, and I didn't know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.
Kate Moss -
Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
Jack Klugman -
I don't have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.
Sally Phillips -
Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
Daniel A. D'Aniello -
I'm not really a food connoisseur.
Aasif Mandvi -
We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
Caitlyn Jenner
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Doubts never end. If one doubt is removed, another takes its place. It is like removing the leaves of a tree one by one. Even if all the leaves are clipped off, new ones grow. The tree itself must be uprooted.
Ramana Maharshi -
That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.
Sam Raimi -
I'm looking to produce more stuff: TV shows, commercials, music videos and short films. I'm building my catalog so I can have some fun in between the times that I get to a movie.
Larenz Tate -
I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.
Laura Wade -
I don't write women who are weak or simpering.
P. C. Cast -
I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.
Hanif Kureishi
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The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.
Paul Fussell -
Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.
Marc Platt -
There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but I'm afraid it's heading in the wrong direction.
Ogden Nash -
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . .
William Shakespeare -
Through Plato, Aristotle came to believe in God; but Plato never attempted to prove His reality. Aristotle had to do so. Plato contemplated Him; Aristotle produced arguments to demonstrate Him. Plato never defined Him; but Aristotle thought God through logically, and concluded with entire satisfaction to himself that He was the Unmoved Mover.
Edith Hamilton -
Reality is the only obstacle to happiness.
Russell Baker