Samuel Beckett Quotes
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I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can.
Dan Stevens -
Truth is a tendency.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals.
Lamorne Morris -
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
Zhuangzi -
Before going on 'X Factor' again, I felt like I'd tried everything else.
Fleur East
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I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.
B. B. King -
I like auditioning! A lot of people hate it, but I like it.
Aaron Tveit -
The one who turns his back on the world and its comforts and, sets out on the path that leads to the Beloved has to face countless difficulties. But he brakes them all for the sake of the Beloved.
Dada Vaswani -
I'd love to do a Broadway show, but I can't because of the style I sing.
Jackie Evancho -
The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.
Patricia Cornwell -
I never have had blonde hair. I have never had straight hair. I never wear pink clothes or spray tan and I never wore heels to school.
Carly Chaikin
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I'll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I'm recording. If I break one I'll just replace it instead of putting on a whole new set of strings.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.
Ben Harper -
I'm nice, and I show up on time.
Lauren Graham -
Well, part of it is a longstanding belief - it's been in our education establishment at least since the 1930s - that somehow children should be allowed to discover knowledge for themselves, that they should construct their own knowledge. This has surfaced most recently in connection with mathematics instruction, where the idea is that they need to discover how to add for themselves. Rather than being taught how to add, they should construct this knowledge on their own.
Lynne Cheney -
To resolve this issue will require Iran to come to the table and discuss in a clear and forthright way how to prove to the international community that the intentions of their nuclear program are peaceful. [...] The question is going to be whether in these discussions they show themselves moving clearly in that direction.
Barack Obama -
The meeting is called by the U.S. to give their vision of the interim Iraqi authority. It will be a one-day meeting. And the U.S. will present its vision, and there will be a statement after the meeting.
Ahmed Chalabi
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Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls.
Aristotle -
You must choose a road for yourself.
Kazuo Koike -
Music gave me something that was not only good for me - it gave me something to work on, something to be proud of and something that I really loved and have a love for - but also music was good for other people because you put joy into the world.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
I think that if people are having trouble communicating with one another, the least they can do is SHUT UP.
Tom Lehrer -
Every man that ever lived craved perfect happiness, the detective poignantly reflected. But how can we have it when we know we’re going to die? Each joy was clouded by the knowledge it would end. And so nature had implanted in us a desire for something unattainable? No. It couldn’t be. It makes no sense. Every other striving implanted by nature had a corresponding object that wasn’t a phantom. Why this exception? the detective reasoned. It was nature making hunger when there wasn’t any food. We continue. We go on. Thus death proved life.
William Peter Blatty -
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
Samuel Beckett