William Ellery Channing Quotes
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.William Ellery Channing
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If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
Barbara Walters -
When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
Gary Hamel -
The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
Gareth Gates -
Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
Camilla Lackberg -
I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
Jack Nicholson -
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
Vikram Seth -
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
Kate Walsh -
When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
T. J. Miller -
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Baruch Spinoza -
It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.
Laura Innes
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At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.
Ilan Stavans -
One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
Yael Stone -
It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
Zane Grey -
Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.
Fay Godwin -
Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
Zac Posen -
Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.
Samantha Stosur
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Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.
Eric Idle -
Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred.
Vandana Shiva -
He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Confucius -
If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.
Dana Carvey -
He had on bunny slippers. These had fangs. They all stared at them in silence for about a heartbeat, and then Shane said, "That is impressively wicked. Crazy, but wicked.
Rachel Caine -
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
William Ellery Channing