J. G. Farrell Quotes
But now the giant heads of Plato and Socrates, each with an expression of penetrating wisdom carved on his white features, surveyed the river and the melon beds beyond.J. G. Farrell
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When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.
Kapil Sibal -
I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
K. A. Applegate -
The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
Hanna Rosin -
I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.
Tammy Duckworth -
Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
Jack Keane -
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
Rachael Taylor
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
Zac Brown Band -
Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
Mahavira -
I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.
Pat Paulsen -
No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
Gabriel Byrne -
Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.
Pamela Adlon -
I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
Daniel Bryan
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
Ted Shackelford -
People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.
Ingmar Bergman -
To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.
Irving Babbitt -
Being the leader of a division is a pressure, but it's one that I feel I am ready for.
Becky Lynch -
War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.
Olivia De Havilland
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A huge part of my career and how I want to participate in the world is being unapologetically myself and being honest and vulnerable.
Paloma Elsesser -
We the chefs have a responsibility to learn about the chemical makeup of food!
Joel Robuchon -
It was the ideal of living in Eretz Yisrael that took me out of my house, out of my country and caused me to travel from my place. I left my house; I repudiated my inheritance...Why? Because I wished to travel to the bosom of my mother, Eretz Yisrael.
Nahmanides -
A loving heart was better and stronger than wisdom...
David Copperfield -
Most of us float with the river and there are a few people who move the river. Robert DeNiro is definitely one of them.
Ethan Hawke -
But now the giant heads of Plato and Socrates, each with an expression of penetrating wisdom carved on his white features, surveyed the river and the melon beds beyond.
J. G. Farrell