William Collins Quotes
Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.
William Collins
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
Sam Donaldson
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
Hanna Rosin
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
Nancy Lublin
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
Kangana Ranaut
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You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.
Kacey Musgraves
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I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.
T. J. Miller
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I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.
T. S. Kalyanaraman
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
Damon Galgut
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I think beautiful independent films are made, and I think they're as close to what theater can be because they're not loaded with all of the extra stuff. It's human, and it's more organic, but theater is very unique... It's a different connection altogether.
Sam Underwood
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I love baseball, and the door remains open.
Rafael Palmeiro
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Everything that is, was, and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their ideal Form.
H. P. Blavatsky
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As we are, so we see.
William Blake
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I love my boys so much I fear my heart will explode. I wonder if this love will crack open my chest and split me in half. It is scary, this love.
Amy Poehler
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Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way.
Francis Bacon
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Every dude in your high school wasn't striving to be the best poet because then he'd get all the girls, right? But you could imagine a society in which that were the case.
Chad Harbach
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Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.
William Collins
