Russell Banks Quotes
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So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.
Victoria Pendleton -
Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
Fernando Pessoa -
I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.
Maajid Nawaz -
We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
Bebe Rexha -
It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.
Floyd Abrams
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I am essentially someone who comes from the theatre. I love the theatre. Unfortunately, theatre doesn't pay the bills. Only in theatre abroad, I get a wage.
Kabir Bedi -
Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
Zebulon Pike -
Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.
H. L. Hunt -
We'll always need energy. We need to communicate, too, but we're not stuck with hand gestures and smoke signals. There are better ways to power our future than by digging fossil fuel from the ground and setting it on fire.
Frances Beinecke -
It was in 1969 that I was able to give up my administrative responsibility. As I worked hard my research never suffered during this period and as a matter of fact these were probably some of my most productive years.
George Andrew Olah -
I'd rather go to sleep than find a girl.
Niall Horan One Direction
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That authorization was based on an intelligence community assessment of a serious and continuing threat to the homeland. The lawfulness of the actual authorization was reviewed by lawyers at the Department of Justice and the White House, and was approved by the attorney general.
B. R. Hayden -
Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come to conquer my soul? What brought you?
Pablo Neruda -
Like with 'Parks and Recreation,' it's so much fun because the people writing it are funny and they're open and you just go in there and have a good time. It's pretty much the easiest job I've ever had.
Aziz Ansari -
The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they're more desperate than anyone else, but because they're more touched by it. That's not their weakness. It's their strength!
Marianne Williamson -
Well, it wasn't really a decision on my part although you always hope as an author that a book that goes out of print somehow winds up back in print. These days publishers like to put out-of-print books into e-book form, but I really wanted to do an update.
Bob Colacello -
This is really a window for people to choose what they want to skate to and try to explore new things, just do whatever they want. It's really nice to have options to express our creativity.
Sasha Cohen
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"Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Picasso.. ..the master.. ..being a master: 'I don't search, I find' a famous quote of Picasso, where he criticize the 'searching' artists ..the master, the mastery.. ..Producing, producing.. .He Picasso! only knows how to work, can’t do anything else. What lost souls!.. .The great risk is producing for its own sake. You must never force things. You just have to wait.
Bram van Velde -
I'm in the hands of Jesus.
Tammy Faye Bakker -
But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.
Russell Banks