William Ames Quotes
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
Ibrahim Babangida -
It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
J. B. Smoove -
At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
Tabitha Soren -
One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
Zayn Malik One Direction -
I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
Yair Lapid -
These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
Viktor Orban
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
Ted Deutch -
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
N. Scott Momaday -
I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
Manu Bennett -
If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
Immanuel Kant -
For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
Vikas Swarup -
Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
Vikas Swarup
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The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.
Cameron Mathison -
The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
Tammy Faye Bakker -
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
Imelda Marcos -
Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
Daniel Barenboim -
It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always.
Yvette Nicole Brown -
I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
Patrick Marber
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It's difficult sometimes to go and see a show and enjoy it and not go and see a show and critique it.
Jack Garratt -
Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
The thing that I really love about the 80s is, there was a sense of hand made-ness about the fashion then. You could have a pair of jeans and dump some bleach on them, and make them something that was really trendy for that era.
Alyssa Milano -
To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn't convenient, comfortable, or easy.
Epictetus -
The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given
William Ames