Alessandro Baricco Quotes
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One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
Val McDermid -
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. Auden -
I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.
Carlos Slim -
Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.
Cameron Mackintosh -
I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.
Harold Prince -
One of the reasons for me that there's no 'Spaced 3' is that I don't think you can pretend to be 26 for ever.
Edgar Wright
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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.
Oscar Wilde -
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
Tony Bennett -
I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely forgotten, and then it won't say anything at all.
Tony Kushner -
The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten.
Albert Einstein -
It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat.
William Lewis Safir
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An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave any lasting scar in the world, and they don`t affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count.
Willa Cather -
You tell me it is too early to be looking back, but that is because you have forgotten the perfect simplicity of being one and the beautiful complexity introduced by two.
William Collins -
How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
Jane Austen -
The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. . . . I call C the Forgotten Man.
William Graham Sumner -
Being Forgotten Is Worse Then Death
Billy Howerdel Ashes Divide
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In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.
Henry Louis Gates -
Avoid patent leather, pink, and crystals.
Edgardo Osorio -
Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
Washington Irving -
Don't know what 2 say about Dunk-a-roos. They're just good! Sometimes you want a food that is comfortable and takes you back. For me, it's those crazy little kangaroo crackers.
Prince -
Reasons get forgotten.
Alessandro Baricco