Evan Ross Quotes
I want to be remembered for the good work that I've done, for the positive work, and as somebody who was innovative and who people enjoyed.Evan Ross
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
Feist -
I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
Jackee Harry -
I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
Samuel Barber -
I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
Sadie Frost -
When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
Rachel Kushner -
Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
Walter Kirn
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
Harold Budd -
Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Washington Irving -
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
Salman Rushdie -
I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
Kate DiCamillo
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People say, 'Do you ever miss being a normal teenager?'
Maisie Williams -
I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about nothing in particular. I recall one about someone with an illness. But my dedication wasn't really healthy, and it reached the point where I wasn't sleeping. My mum would tell me, 'You need to go outside to get some fresh air.'
Samantha Shannon -
Some might complain that nuclear disarmament is little more than a dream. But that ignores the very tangible benefits disarmament would bring for all humankind. Its success would strengthen international peace and security. It would free up vast and much-needed resources for social and economic development. It would advance the rule of law.
Ban Ki-moon -
I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.
Tatjana Patitz -
When I see something that's wrong, I just speak and act first and I'll take the consequences later.
Felix Dennis -
I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.
Nancy Greene
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Aging gracefully is about no heavy makeup, and not too much powder because it gets into the wrinkles, and, you know, to not get turtle eyelids and to not try to look young.
Iris Apfel -
From the things I've read, I think I've been portrayed in kind of a way that makes me look like I don't put an effort into winning. I think that's completely the wrong portrayal of the person I am.
Matt Harvey -
Now we're here in 2009. My boys are 16 and 18, one's going to USC film school, and the other seems to be a natural comedian. So now I have to go back into show business as a senior comedian. So I hope to get Walter Brennan-type roles, Gabby Hayes kind of stuff, be the old-timer. We'll see what happens.
Dana Carvey -
I'm happy that people have watched and appreciated my work. That's why I'm doing it.
Joel Kinnaman -
Sometimes economists in official positions give bad advice; sometimes they give very, very bad advice; and sometimes they work at the OECD.
Paul Krugman -
I want to be remembered for the good work that I've done, for the positive work, and as somebody who was innovative and who people enjoyed.
Evan Ross