Hippolyte Taine Quotes
For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel.Hippolyte Taine
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Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
Adam Lambert -
It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
Jack Schwartz -
There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
Adam Lambert -
You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!
Zayn Malik One Direction -
Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
Wayne Dyer
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I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.
Barry Hannah -
I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.
Ja Rule -
I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don't have any regrets.
Kabir Bedi -
Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists.
Victor Pinchuk -
Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal.
Edward Sapir -
We declare war against socialism, not because it is socialism, but because it has opposed nationalism.... We intend to be an active minority, attract the proletariat away from the official Socialist party. But if the middle class thinks that we are going to be their lightning rods, they are mistaken.
Benito Mussolini
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There are very few actresses who can grow old and still get exciting parts... I think it's very important for me to have wider horizons, rather than just waiting for calls.
Clemence Poesy -
I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.
Andres Serrano -
I think it would be amazing to be a character actor and still be a lead now and then in movies.
Britt Robertson -
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
Pearl S. Buck -
One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for 'I Will Survive.'
Gloria Gaynor -
I made 'St. Nick' on a 30-page outline. 'Aint' Them Bodies Saints' was a full-bodied script, but it still had a lot of room for improvisation. There were scenes that weren't there on the page - just a sentence saying something happens. I was like, 'We'll figure this out when we shoot it.'
David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
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Beautiful has never been my goal.
Pink -
There is a cunning which we in England call 'the turning of the cat in the pan;' which is, when that which a man says to another, he lays it as if another had said it to him.
Francis Bacon -
I receive them only when he thinks I deserve it - I have to work for them!
Kamal Haasan -
It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don't put on all their rings and all their bracelets.
Ines de La Fressange -
If you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life’s inevitable difficulties disturb you less.
Dalai Lama -
For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel.
Hippolyte Taine