Michelangelo Quotes
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My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.
Natascha McElhone -
Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.
Harald zur Hausen -
Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!
Hafez -
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.
Hanya Yanagihara
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Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.
Garth Davis -
I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.
J. J. Abrams -
Working as a teaboy may have helped my confidence, but not everyone else was so pleased. I could never remember who had milk or how many sugars, and I had an unusual talent for spilling tea on the recording console.
Rick Astley -
I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.
Ziggy Marley -
I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
Alan Alda -
After a while, if you're committed, you start to believe in the things in which you're praying. It's just cognitive dissonance. You can't live a completely religious life and not start to have it sink in.
A. J. Jacobs
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Ann Coulter to me is someone who says things that I say all the time, but I say them at three in the morning when I'm drunk as a monkey. She says them at three in the afternoon stone sober in bright daylight.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I did a book signing Saturday, actually, in Augusta and people were just coming up to me in tears saying, 'Thank you, for what you've done. You've helped me change my life'.
Ashley Smith -
I'm a gemini, and I get so bored so easily. I mean, I have moved six times in the last eight years.
Courteney Cox -
[James] Baldwin was a revelation for me, the kind of revelation that follows you all your life because you can go back to it. It's not just about stories. It's about philosophy. It's about criticizing the world. It's about deconstructing the world around you.
Raoul Peck -
Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.
William Feather -
All partings foreshadow the great final one.
Charles Dickens
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Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Steve Jobs -
I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
Michelangelo