Sinclair Lewis (Harry Sinclair Lewis) Quotes
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
W. H. Auden -
I just think something about being in front of a live audience when you've finished a big dance that you've been working on for so long - I don't think anything can really beat that.
Maisie Williams -
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
When I entered into office mid-recession, my No. 1 focus was Utah's economy. We set bold goals, and we've built one of the best-performing economies in the nation.
Gary Herbert -
At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.
Jacob Batalon -
I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.
Rachel Bilson
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In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.
Iggy Pop -
I am willing to lend that hand, I will continue to stay involved with my charities as long as they need me.
Laura San Giacomo -
I always try to give my songs as gifts.
Dan Fogelberg -
My dog Tucker likes to walk late at night because it is a good way to keep me awake. Apparently, the one time I took him for a stroll around midnight represented, to him, a commitment similar to marriage.
W. Bruce Cameron -
I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to be heard. I don't claim and pretend to know the thoughts and opinions and ideas of all African-Americans.
J. C. Watts -
I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant.
Walter Isaacson
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My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.
Q'orianka Kilcher -
The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
Viktor Korchnoi -
We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.
Barack Obama -
I'm extremely happy that I could win the gold medal. It's a special moment in my career.
Ma Long -
Human character is just endlessly fascinating, and there is no character who is one thing any more than any one person is just one thing. As you work on a character, he/she is revealed more and more. That's what I continue to love about the work.
Sada Thompson -
Manchester was a fantastic place to go out in. There were 10 clubs with world-class cabaret and comedians. You'd go in and Tom Jones might be singing, or Shirley Bassey or Engelbert Humperdinck.
Francis Lee
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This spirit of cooperation will, I hope, lead to many more measures that will benefit all in the region.
Jack Straw -
A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is. The logotherapist's role consists of widening and broadening the visual field of the patient so that the whole spectrum of potential meaning becomes conscious and visible to him.
Viktor E. Frankl -
Alone among the societies that abolished slavery in the nineteenth century, the United States, for a moment, offered the freedmen a measure of political control over their own destinies.
Eric Foner -
The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
Sinclair Lewis