Adrian Anthony Gill (A. A. Gill) Quotes
I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.
Adrian Anthony Gill
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
Adam Jones
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When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.
Ozwald Boateng
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In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.
Edmund White
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I lived in Montreal from the time I was 12 until I was 16.
Oscar Taveras
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Proactive giving is what you do when you've found your passion. It expresses your values, interests and concerns. It engages not just your dollars, but also your mind, time, skills and networks - the philanthropic equivalent of leaning in, rather than leaning back. Most importantly, proactive giving is something you want to do.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
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I firmly believe that we can protect taxpayer dollars, bus drivers' jobs, and the safety of our students. We just need a mayor who actually cares about all three.
Sal Albanese
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I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.
Olivia De Havilland
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Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.
Gary Larson
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'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.
Edgar Wright
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Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.
Dalton Trumbo
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Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor.
Faith Evans
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Written in 1895, Alfred Nobel's will endowed prizes for scientific research in chemistry, physics, and medicine. At that time, these fields were narrowly defined, and researchers were often classically trained in only one discipline. In the late 19th century, knowledge of science was not a requisite for success in other walks of life.
Peter Agre
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I'm not much of a Rick Moody fan, but I want to be a fan for the Rick Moody I thought might appear after his first two novels, 'Garden State' (1992) and 'The Ice Storm' (1994).
Alexander Chee
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The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology.
Cynthia McKinney
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The reality is, I like imperfection. You take away from the world when you're not yourself. Whatever is unique and special about you was designed by God. And when you try to be someone else, we don't get you. Who knows what you would have contributed to the world had you just been yourself, if you had just celebrated who you are and just walked boldly?
Queen Latifah
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It's a very wise thing for people to rationally sit down and look at what the risks are not only on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, on a monthly basis, on a yearly basis, on a lifetime basis, and then plan one's life accordingly.
Benjamin Carson
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I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.
Adrian Anthony Gill
