Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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I would love to be a role model.
Gabby Douglas -
Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
Flume -
A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
Man Ray -
I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
Laura Linney -
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
Randy Schekman
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I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.
Feist -
Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
J. D. Salinger -
It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.
LaToya Jackson -
Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they're gone.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Oscar Wilde -
Before 'Titanic,' yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose, yes, I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it's just a bit daft for me.
Kate Winslet
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I haven't any strength, I haven't any character, I'm a born tool. I haven't any destiny. All I have is dreams. And now other people run them.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
While people are celebrating on Sunday we shouldn't forget the people who fought for lifting this ban are in jail.
Manal al-Sharif -
We should not be frightened by appearances.
Alain de Botton -
Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.
Alistair Darling -
What would happen if we finally succeeded in following the directions of nature and recognized that the great secret of education lies hidden in the maxim, 'Do not educate'?
Ellen Key -
Somebody has to invest in creating the movies of the future.
Eric Fellner
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I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.
Bette Midler -
Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left.
Donella Meadows -
You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
Adam Arkin -
The brightest ornaments in the crown of the blessed in heaven are the sufferings which they have borne patiently on earth.
Alphonsus Liguori -
Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
Thomas Carlyle