D.B.C. Pierre Quotes
The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.D.B.C. Pierre
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I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.
Harold Ford, Jr. -
I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
Cameron Sinclair -
We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
Saint Basil -
Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
Walt Mossberg -
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
Babasaheb
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
Xavier Niel -
I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
Sam Heughan -
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
Harold MacMillan -
I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
Victor Cruz -
People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys -
Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.
Hamish Bowles
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I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.
Earl Campbell -
I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.
Carl Zeiss -
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
Mahatma Gandhi -
National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
Pankaj Mishra -
Creative people are more prone to depression.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.
Maddie Hasson
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We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
I have very long legs and I hate driving anything unless it's a boat or an ATV in the jungle. I like to sit in the back of a car, where I can look out the window, answer my emails on my iPad, or hold hands with a pretty girl.
Jean Pigozzi -
Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.
Virginia Woolf -
I did a couple comedies to balance myself as an actor and balance how audiences see Donnie Yen as an actor, and I would even say as a celebrity or icon, to some fans. I want to show that I'm not Terminator.
Donnie Yen -
In the fall of 1989, I was writing 600-word columns at the 'Herald.' My heart always was in long-form narrative writing, though. It's what I cut my teeth on at the 'Boston Phoenix.'
Charlie Pierce -
The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.
D.B.C. Pierre