Walter Isaacson Quotes
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Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.
Daniel Craig -
We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
Park Chung-hee -
Politics is the art of the possible.
Otto von Bismarck -
Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level.
Victor Garber -
We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
H. R. McMaster -
Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
Federico Fellini
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I have a great support network - my family, my model agency Storm, and people I work with in the fashion industry. And, of course, there are all my followers on Twitter who stop me from feeling lonely; I love them all. They keep me grounded.
Cara Delevingne -
All reactionaries are paper tigers.
Mao Zedong -
I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
Magnus Scheving -
Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead -
Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
Calvin Peete -
I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
Edmund White
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When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
Maeve Binchy -
Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
Hanna Rosin -
Money has no moral opinions.
Abraham Polonsky -
I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American to rededicate themselves to the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream.
Yvette Clarke -
While certainly no pressing threat to Gordon Lightfoot, I knew it was simply a matter of time until I was going to be a star.
Dan Hill -
When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.'
Taylor Swift
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The sense of jubilee for music and what we're making is always genuine.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo -
I don't smoke marijuana anymore. I don't drink. Marijuana is a handicap. So is alcohol. Alcohol is a terrible handicap. But in spite of being a handicap, it shouldn't be criminal.
Gary Johnson -
I am totally unattached to material items.
Zac Posen -
I'm one of the actors who really enjoys working with kids and animals, which is always a no go. There's something beautiful about it because you tend to forget yourself as an actor.
Mads Mikkelsen -
I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.
Walter Isaacson