Amelia Barr Quotes
A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.Amelia Barr
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Clark Gregg and I are around the same age. He has been an actor and is a writer. But with a first-time director, there is a way to talk about things they might not know. Because Clark was an actor, though, he knew more about the process than most first-time directors.
Sam Rockwell -
People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
Gail Devers -
I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
Fernando Botero -
I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
Naguib Mahfouz -
Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa in a couple of sports, so he was a very positive person and someone who encouraged you to be your best and give your best with everything that you do.
Gail Kelly -
Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
J. William Fulbright -
How can German music not be represented by an article?
Wassily Kandinsky -
One thing that used to worry me is the fact that it seemed like Harvard was this big scary thing where I would have to spend all my time studying just to get in. But getting to go to both campuses of Harvard and Oxford and getting to meet some of the professors was absolutely amazing.
Yara Shahidi -
You lose attitude when you feel too comfortable, so I prefer to wear clothes that have a certain edge to them.
Carine Roitfeld -
I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
Jackie Evancho
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If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.
Eamon de Valera -
I've been blackmailed a billion times. I've been sued for ridiculous things. At one point in my life, I was an ATM machine. But I'm used to that. You don't get used to it, but I'm used to the fact that people will do this, even your own family members, and I don't hate none of them.
R. Kelly -
Ah, poder ser tu, sendo eu!Ter a tua alegre inconsciência,E a consciência disso!
Fernando Pessoa -
A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
Paul Wellstone -
I can't stand tribute bands. It's nice, bless 'em, but it's not right. They can't capture the right spirit. You never see a tribute comedian, a tribute Les Dawson.
Dave Davies The Kinks -
It's always imperative to improve and to remain dynamic - or you'll become lunch, as opposed to serving it.
Danny Meyer
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It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.
Kristin Scott Thomas -
I know that the human condition will be radically changed through technical means. Much of this change will be painful, monstrous and horrible. Most mutations are disgusting failures, most experiments are failures. I accept this and I don't find it frightening.
Bruce Sterling -
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa -
Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .
Garry Winogrand -
But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right.
Lee H. Hamilton -
A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.
Amelia Barr