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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Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die.
David Wilkerson -
For conservatives, the issue is that for generations now, they have failed to make the case for their values. They haven't even conveyed conservative values to many of their children. And when they have, the university has often succeeded in undoing them.
Dennis Prager -
I became a specialist at comedic one-liners.
Lauren Hutton -
Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.
John Polkinghorne -
It took Ireland thirty years to become an overnight success.
Bertie Ahern -
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