Yasmin Alibhai Quotes
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Broadway is really my life.
Vanessa Williams -
I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.
Zooey Deschanel -
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Mahatma Gandhi -
That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
Kate Bosworth -
I used to swallow people's energies, and then I learned, as I got older, that I'm too sensitive, and I had to stop doing that. Now I don't take as much in.
Banks -
But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.
Jack Markell
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I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.
Val Kilmer -
It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again.
Natalie Merchant -
It is not faith per se that creates the problem; it is conviction, the notion that one cannot be wrong, that opposing views are necessarily invalid and may even be intolerable.
Jack McDevitt -
Oofy, thinking of the tenner he had given Freddie, writhed like an electric fan.
P. G. Wodehouse -
Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.
Colin Powell -
Well, there's nothing more touching than putting a smile on a kid's face when you can.
Emma Roberts
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I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.
Bill Le -
It's easy to stereotype twins into any role. There's not a lot of great twin roles written, and oftentimes, when there are, they're given to a single actor who green screens themselves into both places.
Dylan Sprouse -
I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous - that is to say, it's obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.
Maya Angelou -
Elephant populations in India and also in the whole of Asia are under severe stress. The captive ones are rendered jobless due to changes in the mode of transport and lifestyle of people. The ones in the wild are also no better off, as the forests are shrinking.
Mark Shand -
My plat de resistance is potato salad with garlic and olive oil which we press from the olives from my trees in the grounds of my home near St Remy de Provence. I have four hectares and take the olives down to the local community press at Maussane les Alpilles. I don't produce big quantities; it is just for the family and friends.
Jean Reno -
I've met Bill Clinton, Obama a couple of times... I certainly didn't meet George Bush, and wouldn't want to.
David Crosby The Byrds
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Hymns are the poetry of the people.
John Betjeman -
War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too much knowledge of his weakness, his pathetic greed and vanity, and how laughably easy it is to control him.
Patrick Ness -
I want to share music that we grew up with for this generation, the music my parents shared with me.
John Gourley Portugal. The Man -
I also believe that using polo as a platform to give back is a very humble way to position this sport, because people sometimes look at this sport as a little bit snobby. So I love to use polo as a platform to help.
Nacho Figueras -
It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
George Eliot -
Greed is gross. Greed is vile. Greed sucks.
Yasmin Alibhai