Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.
Imogen Heap -
Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
Patricia Schroeder -
I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
Beck -
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
F. H. Bradley -
Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
Tanya Tucker -
The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
Karl Pilkington
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
Ralph Marston -
I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
Cameron Diaz -
There is no bore like a clever bore.
Samuel Butler -
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu -
I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
R. L. Stine -
Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
Rafael dos Anjos
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
Ferdinand Marcos -
Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
K. Flay -
Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
Samantha Bond -
The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
Barry McGuire -
My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys -
I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
T. J. Miller
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The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
When we go to war, our politicians will be guided by our popular will. And if we believe that torture 'got' bin Laden, then we will be more prone to accept the view that a good 'end' can justify brutal 'means.'
Alex Gibney -
I overcame size with mechanics.
Edwin Moses -
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
Charles Peguy -
Life is a vapor. It passes in the blink of an eye.
Sarah Louise Delany -
And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
Virginia Woolf