Herbert Spencer Quotes
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
Edith Head -
While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success.
Wendy Kopp -
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
Carlos Fuentes -
I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
Mandy Patinkin -
I hope I don't have a big ego. I try to keep that in check. But I am a prideful person, I will say.
Natalie Maines -
(He was) tall and lean, an aristocrat by inclination, born into money and influence and never recovered.
Jack McDevitt
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If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?
Bill Gates -
When I go to New York, all the skycaps want my autograph.
Franklin Cover -
I save the rage for the stage.
Jimmy Smits -
That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.
Les Baxter -
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
James A. Baldwin -
Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy.' You've got to be original and stand out from the crowd and take some chances. But you've always got to keep it classy.
Andrew Mayer Cohen
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Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.
Mark Haddon -
It's true what they say: 'You don't appreciate what you've got until it's gone.' I miss love. I miss being looked after.
Cilla Black -
We will do precisely what the British nation has done all through its history when it had its back to the wall — turn round and fight for the things it believes in, and that is what I shall do.
John Major -
When in doubt, punt!
John Heisman -
Hate is perhaps the most dynamic of all emotions - fear may immobilize, love may stay the hand, but hate urges to action.
Alice Duer Miller -
She can kill with a smile, She can wound with her eyes.
Billy Joel
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When I was in college I thought of making up a fictive artist and giving him a name and a body of work. Eventually I came around to the idea of using my own name, which had this strange distancing effect, similar to using a found object. Being a Turk was quite interesting because in a sense it was like being a foreigner.
Gavin Turk -
To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth.
Herbert Spencer