William Barclay Quotes
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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
Ian Frazier -
I honestly can't describe what goes on in my head when I'm out there. People who don't wrestle can't possibly understand it. When I'm in the ring, I don't feel any pain. I'm in another world out there.
Eddie Guerrero -
If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
Zhang Zhidong -
During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
Vidal Sassoon -
I love to push myself.
Canelo Alvarez -
My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
Ted Kotcheff
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I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.
Ralph Lauren -
Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
Hans Selye -
In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die a little. This sounds like a subtle, poetic notion. It's not. In American legal and cultural tradition, one essential privilege of citizenship is not having to prove it on demand.
Walter Kirn -
When the dark days come, many wonderful moments, those will all seem dead and empty to you. It will take practice and even hard work to find the joy sometimes.
Taya Kyle -
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
Karl Kraus
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
O. Henry -
I feel super lucky to be living in New York. I love the city, I love the energy. I always loved it. I had pictures of New York in my bedroom when I was young.
Olivier Theyskens -
Speaking is physically difficult for me.
Gabrielle Giffords -
I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.
Danica Patrick -
The good people look for challenges. When teaching becomes a prestigious profession, then you'll get good people.
Dan Shechtman -
I'm very proud I'm Chinese and represent the Chinese community.
Patrick Chan
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You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.
Candace Bushnell -
I'm not a walking fleet of vanity vans any more than I'm a walking, talking multi-star cast. I might want an entourage, but so far, it is entirely eluding me.
Karan Johar -
Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.
Waylon Jennings -
No matter the good news anywhere else, these nuke-hungry rogue states will provide grounds for bad-mouthing Bush foreign policy.
Rich Lowry -
True prayer is asking God what He wants.
William Barclay