William R. Alger Quotes
What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.William R. Alger
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
Park Chan-wook -
Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
Queen Latifah -
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
Harold Brodkey -
As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
Patrick J. Kennedy -
I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
Karl Jaspers -
I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
Manuel Puig
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
Laura Mvula -
I don't eat any red meat.
Taylor Momsen -
Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition.
Nancy Kress -
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu -
I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
Laura Dern -
What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
T. C. Boyle
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I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
Walter Kaufmann -
I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.
Victor LaValle -
I'm just going to say I'm not gay. I really, really like women. That's all I can really say about that.
Aaron Rodgers -
I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.
Zoe Kazan -
Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
Natalia Makarova
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My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.
John Philpot Curran -
The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Google days, in which there was a foreseeably-astonishing delight in the way Google's evolving design tricks anticipated what users would like.
James Fallows -
His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
Mae West -
I've held a brain in my hands, which is an extraordinary experience.
Clive Barker -
I'm looking for someone to establish himself as our quarterback.
Joe Gibbs -
What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.
William R. Alger