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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
Garry Moore -
Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
Sam Graves -
Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
Zaha Hadid -
It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
Saint Ignatius
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The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
Taye Diggs -
The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
Federico Fellini -
It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
Ian Millar -
I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
Garth Brooks -
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
Edith Wharton -
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Oliver Goldsmith
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
Mahershala Ali -
Being a celebrity is a business.
Caitlyn Jenner -
I am aware that I look good for my age. It's my genes. My dad looked incredibly young, so did my mother. And a younger husband helps. Scott is only 45. If he hadn't come along, I don't know what I'd have done.
Barbara Windsor -
We don't worry about the integrity of our game. I'm more focused on the atmosphere in the arena, and that's something we're comfortable with going forward.
Gary Bettman -
Life is such a tragicomedy.
Oleg Cassini -
Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
J. B. Priestley
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Earnest people are always a bit on the thick side in my experience.
Geoff Dyer -
The way to do some things is to do them.
Carolyn Wells -
Man's inhumanity to man is as old as humanity itself. Some people just do evil things. Most do not. A billion people have seen 'Batman' movies over the past 20 years, and they have been entertained and inspired. One man saw it as a sick entry point for mass murder. The one is tragic. The billion are not. I choose to write for the billion.
Kurt Sutter -
I always take a fiction break in between business books to keep the content from bleeding together.
Kayla Tausche -
Whenever I do my concerts, I try to do master classes or students.
Donna McKechnie -
Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them.
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