William Dunbar Quotes
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi -
When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
Quentin Tarantino -
If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
A. R. Rahman -
In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
Karl Rove -
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
Barbara Walters -
I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
Adam Lambert
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The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
E. W. Howe -
As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
Viggo Mortensen -
One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
Ban Ki-moon -
My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
Eartha Kitt -
I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
Natasha Trethewey -
Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
Ovid
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It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.
Sam Smith -
Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.
Tamzin Merchant -
I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.
Edith Pearlman -
Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo -
When it comes to the president, we have to respect him, we have to protect him, and we have to correct him. And in my career, since he'd been on the national stage at least, I've had - I've always respected the president.
Tavis Smiley -
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
Paul Cezanne -
I've been in the fortunate position of playing these strong, snarky female characters since Dana Gordon on 'Entourage.'
Constance Zimmer -
Orchard of the strangest fruits Hanging from the skies; Brothers, yet insensate brutes Who fear each others’ eyes.
Elinor Wylie -
Nothing fills us with deep and lasting joy the way that doing a good turn for someone else does. Saving somebody's life, human or animal, is that 'good turn' in spades.
Victoria Moran -
No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is 'making sacred'. He must be a poor specimen of humanity who is in need of sympathy for his sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Gem of all joy, jasper of jocundity.
William Dunbar