Hugh MacDiarmid Quotes
In spite of all their kind some elements of worth With difficulty persist here and there on earth.Hugh MacDiarmid
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
Olivia Thirlby -
I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
Fiona Apple -
Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
Mal Peet -
I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the '80s really changed when the '90s hit. For me to chase that dream or career of music, I started a family, started on 'Melrose Place,' so it was something I didn't have the time or energy.
Jack Wagner -
I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
Ed Speleers
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Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
Karen Bender -
Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
Carine Roitfeld -
I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.
Kate Voegele -
No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
Kate Walsh -
I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
Zaha Hadid -
Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.
Maeve Binchy
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If economists were to wait for careful studies before offering opinions about policy, we would never have anything timely to say.
Raghuram Rajan -
The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.
Xun Kuang -
We've all heard it: vegans are cool and plant-based dining is hot. What other diet can promise to keep you trim without working at it, clear clogged arteries, save the lives of animals, and do more to stem climate change than driving a Prius-or not driving at all?
Victoria Moran -
A large, coarse-skinned young woman but with something of my friend's features, particularly the mouth.
Ada Lovelace -
To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is repugnant, stupid and short sighted. Tools are made by man but have not the autonomy of their maker - they have not man's time-binding capacity for initiation, for self-direction, and self-improvement.
Alfred Korzybski -
The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to gentle their condition. They used to gather clandestinely to read the plays; on one occasion, the book was passed around for each man to mark his favourite lines.
Daniel Hannan
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What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life.
Paul Theroux -
How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.
Johnny Depp -
I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!
Camille Pissarro -
But having said that, regardless to what reviews come out whatever, I like love the movie. I think it's great, and so people can think what they think about it, but I'm very happy with what we did. I'm really proud of whatever all the actors what we all kind of accomplished and so regardless of how well it does or whatever I'm very excited about it and I think we set out to do the thing and accomplished what we wanted to do. Our goal was met, so yeah.
Nicholas Stoller -
In spite of all their kind some elements of worth With difficulty persist here and there on earth.
Hugh MacDiarmid