Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
Vikas Swarup -
You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.
Patrick Swayze -
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
Carl T. Rowan -
You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
Pat Robertson -
I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
Larry Wall -
The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.
Larry Dixon
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.
Florence Griffith Joyner -
Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
Harry Belafonte -
Banning paper and plastic and making shoppers carry their groceries home in their mouths like dogs is just the thing to make a little tin humanist in the Obama West Wing think he's admiral of the Uzbek Navy.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.
Rachel Joyce -
Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land; and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women.
Gabriel Byrne
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I was a dyslexic kid.
Caitlyn Jenner -
The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.
Abraham Lincoln -
I've been very selective in what I did and didn't do.
Larry Wilcox -
I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.
Eden Hazard -
I love playing characters who are multilayered and multidimensional and have a darkness to them, which makes them more realistic and more fun to play.
Katee Sackhoff -
Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
Dalai Lama
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My father, who was a hair colourist, died when I was young, so my mother had to work very hard. But at the same time, I do believe that if you have everything, it is easy to make a dinner. When you only have flour and water and olives and potatoes, you have to be much more creative, and that's what my mother is all about.
Alber Elbaz -
I grew up listening to Frank Sinatra, riding in the car with my grandpa, and I was just intrigued by it.
Brett Eldredge -
The pleasantly crude 'Hall Pass' reminds us of what's been missing from movies: Those squirm-inducing moments in comedy that produce enough discomfort that, at points, what we're watching is half a heartbeat away from a horror film.
Elvis Mitchell -
I work very hard on motivating everything I do as an actor. Explosive moments have to be completely motivated; whether they're explosive comedy or explosive horror, they have to come organically out of a scene and an interaction with another actor.
John Lithgow -
I make music because I like making music.
Natalia Kills -
what she loved: life, London, this moment of june.
Virginia Woolf