Stevie Smith Quotes
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
Quentin Crisp -
The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
Lance Burton -
There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.
Samantha Barks -
Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
Vida Blue -
I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.
Nancy McKeon -
Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.
Adam Mansbach -
My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
Ophelia Lovibond -
I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.
Ina Garten -
If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.
Adam Grant -
I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
Abraham Lincoln -
My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.
Ram Dass
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The process is intense and the producers, who are intelligent men, are bringing in new people for a fresh look at a complicated project that has been in the making for 10 years.
Ednita Nazario -
I'm training once a day, four days a week, and just loving life.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
The point is that we are among those who cannot get their mouths around all the little Yeses that add up to tacit acceptance of a world run by crackpot realists and subject to blind drift. And that, you see, is something to which we do belong; we belong to those who are still capable of personally rejecting. Our minds are not yet captive.
C. Wright Mills -
There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.
Jack Vance -
Life was treasure. The only treasure.
Octavia E. Butler -
I have looked upon all that the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and the flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me. But I do not think my life will be long. As my uncle went, as poor Johansen went, so I shall go. I know too much, and the cult still lives.
H. P. Lovecraft
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I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for – getting paid for doing what you love.
Tiger Woods -
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
The hideous god of war.
William Shakespeare -
I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
The Master gives himself up to whatever the moment brings. He knows that he is going to die, and her has nothing left to hold on to: no illusions in his mind, no resistances in his body. He doesn't think about his actions; they flow from the core of his being. He holds nothing back from life; therefore he is ready for death, as a man is ready for sleep after a good day's work.
Lao Tzu -
If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.
Stevie Smith