Alec-Tweedie Quotes
Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.Alec-Tweedie
Quotes to Explore
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A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
Rachel Cusk -
My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
Irwin Shaw -
When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
Danica McKellar -
The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.
Adam Draper -
Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.
Maajid Nawaz -
A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.
Olivia Wilde
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This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.
Florence Kelley -
I love playing with makeup. Makeup has become a thing where it's an art form. It's not a thing where you use it because you need to feel beautiful or because you don't like the way you look.
Zendaya -
Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A. A. Milne -
Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.
Orson Welles -
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
James Whistler -
Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.
Bobby McFerrin
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No, I wouldn't want the paparazzi ever following me in my life.
Elizabeth Olsen -
I thought to myself, what is everyone's worst fear? Nuclear terrorism in America.
Nelson DeMille -
It's not easy being the world's policeman. No one thanks you for it.
Philip Kerr -
Texas is made for trade.
Kevin Brady -
We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore.
Antonio Banderas -
Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us.
David Hackworth
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My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.
Ed Miliband -
Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.
Sally Ride -
Product downsizing in the face of inflation in order to maintain retail price points has long been used by food companies, notably manufacturers of candy.
John Quelch -
American healthcare faces a crisis in quality. There is a dangerous divide between the potential for the high level of quality care that our health system promises and the uneven quality that it actually delivers.
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey -
Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.
Alec-Tweedie