Evan Esar Quotes
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I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
Bayard Taylor -
To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.
Octavio Paz -
I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.
Ice Cube -
When I held that statuette, I felt as if I had won a triumph not just for myself, but for every other woman who'd struggled to overcome the same sort of background.
Halle Berry -
The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute:
Omar Khayyam
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Intelligent investment is more a matter of mental approach than it is of technique. A sound mental approach toward stock fluctuations is the touchstone of all successful investment under present-day conditions.
Benjamin Graham -
I've been involved in animal issues for quite a while, going back 24 years. I started reading up on factory farming and slaughterhouses and animal cruelty, and it didn't make sense for me to be part of it.
Kevin Nealon -
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
Booker T. Washington -
If you think about what everyone else will think, you forget to just make music.
Chris Stapleton -
It's important to have a healthy balanced diet but not to get too bogged down about it. It's important to enjoy your food, too.
Katie Taylor -
I got a mortgage at 17! I didn't even know you could get a mortgage at 17.
Jennifer Ellison
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After spending so much time in America, I started travelling with 'In Defence of English Cooking' by George Orwell. It's archaic and old-fashioned in its Englishness and reminds me of home.
Jamie Hince -
And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.
Brittany Murphy -
My best friend was a magpie goose, and my magpie goose would follow me around, and we'd dance in the zoo together. Then I'd be covered in mud!
Bindi Irwin -
I'm not the only person who has something in their life they can't control.
Toby McKeehan -
I can't remember if it was in the third grade in school, I was being told that two amoeba happened to hit in a muddy puddle of water two billion years ago, and I was an accident. I was the result. I wasn't real smart, but I said, 'I don't like the sound of that.'
Joe Gibbs -
A world in which there are no secrets that can be protected at all is going to be a pretty dangerous world.
David Ignatius
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Capitalism may have all sorts of things that are good, but ultimately, it's bad for everyone.
Douglas Tompkins -
I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.
Arthur Hertzberg -
I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.
Miley Cyrus -
Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
Walter O'Brien -
'Charlotte's Web,' which I read sitting on my mother's lap, was the most emotional experience: that was when I made the leap from seeing how to untangle words to realizing how books both contain and convey strong feelings.
Meg Wolitzer -
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
Evan Esar