Michael Moorcock (Michael John Moorcock) Quotes
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
J. B. Smoove -
All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
Carl Bernstein -
I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
Patrick Murphy -
I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
Ed Speleers -
'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
C. S. Lewis -
I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.
Yolanda Adams
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Police can only act on intelligence.
P. Chidambaram -
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
Walt Disney -
I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
Rainn Wilson -
I have lots of clothes that I don't wear because I'm bad for impulse buying. They sit in my cupboard looking forlorn, but if I haven't worn something for a couple of months, I usually realise that it would be much better off in one of my friends' wardrobes.
Bat for Lashes -
I do a lot of yoga, and that definitely helps. And Pilates is so good for your legs.
Laura Harrier -
A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.
Warren Farrell
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Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
A. Bartlett Giamatti -
I'm not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I'm seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.
Taylor Swift -
The danger hidden within Weber's charismatic celebrity is … having a predisposition to imitate any one individual must always have its negative impact especially when the role model does not feel a duty … to instantiate suitable values to adopt.
Jack Gleeson -
All our symbols have the same purpose; words are merely the symbols we use most commonly. The function of words in human thought is to stand for things which are not present to the senses, and allow the mind to manipulate them-things, concepts, ideas, everything that does not have a physical reality in front of us now.
Jacob Bronowski -
Sometimes when I'm flying over the Alps I think, 'that's like all the cocaine I sniffed.
Elton John -
In the field of astronomy in the mid-'60s, quasars were very sexy objects - gigantic, star-like masses about which little was known. I was a graduate research student at Cambridge working towards my Ph.D. and chose quasars as the subject for my thesis. Part of my project involved surveying the sky for them using a radio telescope.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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Genius is childhood recalled at will.
Charles Baudelaire -
My father has never once asked me a question, any question. There's a freedom that came from that. It allowed me to create my own way of thinking.
Douglas Coupland -
Shouldn't a great museum foster serious seeing before all else?
Mark Stevens -
I really want as many people as possible to relate to something, without compromising or dumbing down.
John Cameron Mitchell -
I am very proud to say that America is my home! I have so much respect for this country and the people in it. I'm so grateful that you guys have taken me in with care and respect.
Camila Alves -
Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance.
Michael Moorcock