William Howard Taft Quotes
If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.William Howard Taft
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
Mads Mikkelsen -
It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.
Gary Lineker -
At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
Karl Jaspers -
My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
Larry Page -
You don't know how good you are until you actually get out on a bike and get riding.
Laura Trott -
The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
Aaron Lazar
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Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.
Barry Eisler -
It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
Ira Glass -
I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.
A. R. Rahman -
I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
Abel Korzeniowski -
I have a close association with Gen. Petraeus... What you get in Dave Petraeus is a very unique officer, a combination of intelligence, extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding.
Jack Keane -
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
Harrison Birtwistle -
If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
Irving Babbitt -
I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.
Garry Trudeau -
From 16 years old, I wanted to have a baby, that's all I wanted.
Sadie Frost -
The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
Pablo Picasso -
I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.
Edie Campbell
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I'd love to do a superhero movie, like a remake of Wonder Woman.
Alessandra Torresani -
It's with my brush that I make love.
Auguste Renoir -
What sometimes goes on in all sorts of Christian institutions is not formation of people in the character of Christ; it's teaching of outward conformity. You don't get in trouble for not having the character of Christ, but you do if you don't obey the laws.
Dallas Willard -
Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
Igor Luksic -
I spent so many years with people saying, 'Hey, you're like America's boyfriend!'
Luke Wilson -
If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
William Howard Taft