Steven Brust (Steven Karl Zoltán Brust) Quotes

It is always man's ideas which drive his actions. This has, at times, resulted in great evil; but as we look around us, we cannot doubt that it has resulted in greater good.

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• I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Believe
  • Best
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• I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.

  

  Fleur East
  • Long
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• Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Control
  • Day
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• I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Time
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• My whole life is a theater piece.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• My message to business leaders is clear: If you are looking to expand your business and boost the bottom line, there is no better place than Utah to do it.

  

  Gary Herbert
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• I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
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• The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.

  

  Walter Map
  • God
  • Feet
  • Meat

• White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

  

  Ma Rainey
  • Know
  • White
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• You have to be resilient.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • You
  • Resilient

• The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Years
  • Youth
  • Worship

• A well balanced, inclusive approach, according to certain standards and ideals, is essential for the proper governance of any country.

  

  Laisenia Qarase
  • Country
  • Governance

• We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Life
  • Artists
  • U.S.

• We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.

  

  Warren Stephens
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• I'm a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become very flexible in the use of metaphors. They learn to communicate with double meanings.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Trust
  • Military
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• I have no regrets.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Regrets
  • No Regrets

• I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Long
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• I can't walk down the street with my head up. I'm not a hat wearer, but now I'm a hat wearer.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Up
  • Walk
  • Street

• I'm so open to different things. The only thing I'd say is I've set the bar pretty high in terms of good female roles with 'Diary,' and I want to continue in that vein.

  

  Bel Powley
  • Good
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  • High

• The Spanish-American War has been a splendid little war, begun with the highest motives, carried on with magnificent intelligence and spirit, favored by that Fortune that loves the brave. It is now to be concluded, I hope, with that fine good nature, which is, after all, the distinguishing trait of the American character.

  

  John Hay
  • Good
  • Character
  • American

• I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Think
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure

• I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.

  

  Moliere
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Conquests

• It is always man's ideas which drive his actions. This has, at times, resulted in great evil; but as we look around us, we cannot doubt that it has resulted in greater good.

  

  Steven Brust
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