Israel ben Eliezer (Baal Shem Tov) Quotes
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
Garth Brooks -
If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
Barbara Walters -
The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
Abhishek Bachchan -
Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
Harbhajan Singh -
The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.
Aasif Mandvi -
I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached.
Ian Mckellen
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It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.
Dan Fogelberg -
I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
Ian Hamilton Finlay -
You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
Van Morrison -
I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
Kara Lindsay -
Politicians make phony promises all the time that they can't deliver.
Larry Hogan -
This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.
Kara Walker -
I like to get a salad or fruit in me - just some good energy food - and then a plate a pasta with a breast of chicken.
Zach LaVine -
What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.
Fernand Leger -
What I think is sad about the rom-com genre is that it has adopted this pejorative title. I think the reason why there haven't been as many great ones is because we are fighting against the genre itself. If it is a romantic comedy then snuggle up to the fact that it can be a really earnest, refreshing feeling to feel good after a movie.
Lake Bell -
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
Ovid -
As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.
T. C. Boyle
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I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.
David Brainerd -
I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes.
Bob Goff -
Admiration is great, but there is a line not to cross.
Taissa Farmiga -
Shortly after my Ph.D., Alfred Kastler urged me to accept a teaching position at the University of Paris. I followed his advice and started to teach at the undergraduate level.
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji -
I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.
Francis Ford Coppola -
Pleasures are manifestations of God's name.
Israel ben Eliezer