Kanan Makiya Quotes
Not prettiness, mind you, whose nature is trite, but beauty, which sinks to the depths.Kanan Makiya
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
Halsey -
The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
Daniel Bryan -
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould -
I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
Dan Gilbert -
Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
Imelda Staunton -
All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
Manal al-Sharif
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
H. P. Lovecraft -
With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
Dalai Lama -
As long as you believe in Him, no matter what happens in your life, understand that it's all for a purpose.
LaDainian Tomlinson -
Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
Rachel Roy -
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
Karl A. Menninger
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I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!
Xavier Dolan -
We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
Patricia Ireland -
I used to go in for Disney auditions, and they'd tell me, 'You're cute and nice but just not funny.'
Gattlin Griffith -
Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.
Fran Tarkenton -
Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
Vernon Howard -
Having created a business that is a success, when you are in a nepotistic situation, people who don't do anything themselves, well, it is easy for them to say it's never good enough.
Vikram Chatwal
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What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.
Charles Jencks -
One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store. Brevity is very important. If you're going to be longwinded, it should be for a purpose. Not just because you like your words.
Patricia Marx -
There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.
Mario Batali -
Weezer's 'El Scorcho.' I'm in a '90s cover band called 'Straight 2 Video' with members of the crew from 'The Vampire Diaries,' and we played this song at our wrap party. I grin from ear to ear every time I scream this song in my car.
Candice Accola -
Not prettiness, mind you, whose nature is trite, but beauty, which sinks to the depths.
Kanan Makiya