Olaf Stapledon Quotes
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I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
Oprah Winfrey -
If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.
Imre Kertesz -
Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.
Ira Glass -
When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
We love Popsicle in our house. Nick could probably down a whole box in one sitting; he's obsessed with the sugar free box, and I'm just obsessed with the classic.
Vanessa Lachey -
I always wanted to get out of Tokyo and in 1977, New York seemed like the most interesting place to visit. I didn't intend to live here- I just wanted to get out and see what was happening. I just happened to stay here then.
Ikue Mori
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I really like children to watch my movies.
Jackie Chan -
Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness.
Vernon L. Smith -
In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.
M.I.A. -
Oops, I did it again, didn't I? My shit's harder to figure out than what Britney's tit size is.
Eminem -
And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leavesInterlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlightTo divide us forever.
Conrad Aiken -
in order to make himself thoroughly undesirable, he will speak.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Nobody, no family, is above the law.
Cyril Ramaphosa -
I originally wanted to be an opera singer. I studied classical voice at the University of Washington but soon realised I didn't have the instrument or the discipline. The road for opera singers is more difficult than for actors.
Kyle MacLachlan -
And given that there's been probably a ten-fold amount of information about terrorism through the media than there has about climate change; I think that's quite an interesting statistic.
Peter Garrett Midnight Oil -
I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.
Alfonso Cuaron -
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.
Christopher Lasch -
Twitter has a several-hour advantage in getting information.
Frank Quattrone
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The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a fine day.
Fanny Kemble -
The center of life is female - we all come from our mothers. I've always drawn women or female spirits. I feel deeply about this - who gives a damn about some guy on a cross? My mother's creativity was smothered after she married and raised a family, but she was supportive of me - even my father expected me to carry on in her footsteps. I prefer to have no kids but lots of animals.
Vali Myers -
It's very important to stay creative and not simply to wait around for people to want you. It's the hardest thing about the business.
John Lithgow -
Military intervention to maintain the global status quo will become a constant feature of international relations, whether this is justified in terms of fighting drugs, fighting terrorism, containing 'rogue states', opposing 'Islamic fundamentalism', or containing China.
Walden Bello -
Our outworn economic system dooms millions to frustration.
Olaf Stapledon