Samuel Pepys Quotes
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It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.
Wanda Sykes -
I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
Olga Kurylenko -
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
Og Mandino -
I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
Samira Wiley -
Bill Cosby, you know, he's a delightful guy.
Barry Corbin -
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
Quintilian
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I moved to Paris for two years, then to London, then New York in 2002. In that time, I also lived in Japan, Italy, Germany - I've been a bit of a gypsy.
Caitriona Balfe -
I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.
Jack O'Connell -
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
Samuel Johnson -
I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!
Nathan Myhrvold -
Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
T. Harv Eker -
Pay attention to science and not myths: We think liars won't look you in the eyes, but it turns out an honest person will only look you in the eyes about 60 percent of the time.
Pamela Meyer
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
Salma Hayek -
You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.
Gabby Douglas -
In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society.
Samina Baig -
For makeup, a bit of blusher - what you call bronzer - a bit of an eye, and an eyelash curler.
Kate Moss -
Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.
Orison Swett Marden -
Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.
Larry Kramer
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Corporate tax reform is nice in theory but tough in practice. It most likely requires lower tax rates and the closing of loopholes, which many companies are sure to fight. And whatever new, lower tax rate is determined, there will probably be another country willing to lower its rate further, creating a sad race to zero.
Andrew Ross Sorkin -
Wait on God and He will work, but don't wait in spiritual sulks because you cannot see an inch in front of you! Are we detached enough from our spiritual hysterics to wait on God? To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.
Oswald Chambers -
I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another...
John Lennon The Beatles -
There is no such thing as an appropriate joke. That's why it's a joke.
Michael Scott -
I'm running for senator because it's time for a change.
John Sununu -
Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
Samuel Pepys