Machado de Assis Quotes
He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.Machado de Assis
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
Tamae Watanabe -
My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
Imogen Heap -
Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
Mahesh Babu -
Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
Abba Eban -
My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
Vidal Sassoon -
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
Eddie Izzard
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
Irwin Shaw -
When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'
Ted Cruz -
Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
Vicki Lawrence -
People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
Fedor Emelianenko -
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
e. e. cummings -
Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
Jack Dempsey
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
Hamza Yusuf -
For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
Kaley Cuoco -
Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
Yukihiro Matsumoto -
I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
Kaley Cuoco -
The hip hop industry is most likely owned by gays. I happen to think there's a gay mafia in hip hop. Not rappers - the editorial presidents of magazines, the PDs at radio stations, the people who give you awards at award shows.
Fat Joe -
When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
Ted Sarandos
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I was lucky. I had some really good people that were just here there and wherever who would come into my life that I felt would answer questions. I mean, I had some very powerful questions myself for what this earth was all about.
Linda Blair -
Creating fatherhood means creating a major psychological shift. Both sexes find it's difficult to fully share the psychological responsibility for the other sex's traditional role - especially when the other sex is around. – page 90.
Warren Farrell -
America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.
Djimon Hounsou -
If you don't have discipline, you don't have anything
Paul J. Meyer -
If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
Camille Claudel -
He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.
Machado de Assis