Iain Pears Quotes
For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away.
Iain Pears
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
Adam Duritz
Matt Malley
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I've always loved makeup. I'm very, very girly. I used to sit and watch my mum get ready. My mum is very glamorous, and I remember sitting on her bed and watching her apply her makeup, get dressed, and do her hair.
Victoria Beckham
Spice Girls
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
Ed Begley, Jr.
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Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
Dalai Lama
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
Gavin Newsom
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
Edmund Hillary
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
M. Stanton Evans
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
Zac Posen
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I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.
Fernando Torres
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
Garth Brooks
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
Wayne Grady
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Do you realize sufficiently what it means to rule-to rule in a secret society? Not only over the lesser or more important of the populace, but over the best of men, over men of all ranks, nations, and religions, to rule without external force, to unite them indissolubly, to breathe one spirit and soul into them, men distributed over all parts of the world?
Adam Weishaupt
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Place a substantial meal before a tired man and he will eat with effort and be little better for it at first. Give him a glass of wine or brandy, and immediately he feels better: you see him come to life again before you.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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The U.S. is the greatest, best country God has ever given man on the face of the earth.
Sean Hannity
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Give us detailed, testable, mechanistic accounts for the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, the origin of ubiquitous bio macromolecules and assemblages like the ribosome, and the origin of molecular machines like the bacterial flagellum, and intelligent design will die a quick and painless death.
William A. Dembski
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The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.
Edie Falco
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For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away.
Iain Pears
