Sean O'Casey Quotes
The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
Samuel Butler
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
Sam Kean
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
Fletcher Knebel
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The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Napoleon Hill
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
Harry Bridges
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
Nancy Kerrigan
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
Victor Ponta
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
Laura Wade
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
Landon Donovan
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
Ram Charan
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
Tamsin Egerton
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
Patrick Lussier
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Grease is the only cure for a hangover.
Cameron Diaz
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I just don't drink alcohol. I never have; I never will.
Kat Graham
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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Calvin Trillin
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There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis.
Zubin Mehta
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The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images.
Oskar Kokoschka
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On every film, there are producers all over the place, and everyone's got to have an opinion. I think the screenplay is a beautiful form with great potential, but the environment around it is awful for a writer.
Sam Shepard
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Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even than Greek literature.
G. H. Hardy
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I think you get in these games and you really see who your team is and what their character is.
Dan Monson
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The fastest thing computers do is go obsolete.
Andy Rooney
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The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.
Sean O'Casey