Ian Dury Quotes
Had a love affair with Nina in the back of my Cortina. A seasoned up hyena, could not have been more obscener.
Ian Dury
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
Camila Alves
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My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
Gaby Hoffmann
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
Victor Hugo
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
Barbra Streisand
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
Earl Weaver
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
J. Cole
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
Hamish Linklater
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
Larry Bird
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
Patricia McCormick
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Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.
Hanoi Hannah
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I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.
Zubin Mehta
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All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.
Zosia Mamet
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I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine.
Magdalena Neuner
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After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of speech. I set up the publishing company in Hong Kong, with offices in Shenzhen in mainland China, and managed to publish works of fiction, philosophy, and politics by unapproved authors.
Ma Jian
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My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used to drive them up the wall. My father died, and that was a tragedy for everybody, but suddenly I didn't have anybody to stop me from doing what I wanted to do.
Don McLean
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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Khalil Gibran
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Had a love affair with Nina in the back of my Cortina. A seasoned up hyena, could not have been more obscener.
Ian Dury
