William Lyon Phelps Quotes
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I wanted to create flats that are as chic as heels - flats you don't have to apologize for.
Edgardo Osorio -
One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
Majora Carter -
Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
A. E. Housman -
I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.
Dan Deacon -
I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.
Dan Wheldon -
I absolutely consider fashion a form of art. Of course, there is some fashion that is not art at all - it's utilitarian, made for the purpose of covering up. And there are a lot of people out there who put a lot of effort into looking awful. But there are also people putting the same amount of energy into making bad art.
Iris Apfel -
I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.
Gale Gordon -
We're still growing into that place of higher consciousness; we are becoming a global conscience. The idea is to unravel the onion and let go of the ego and evolve to that place where you perceive everything to be a beautiful experience rather than a daunting experience.
John Roy Anderson Yes -
Our circumstances are the means God uses to exhibit just how wonderfully perfect and extraordinarily pure His Son is.
Oswald Chambers -
THE HEART'S DEAD ARE NEVER BURIED.
Samuel Hoffenstein
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Your persistence is your belief in yourself.
Brian Tracy -
If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains.
L. Frank Baum -
A sense of humor isn't everything. It's only 90 percent of everything.
Cynthia Heimel -
The fact that there is always a positive side to life is the one thing that gives me a lot of happiness.
Dalai Lama -
The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.
Louise Slaughter -
Having spent alarmingly large chunks of my life studying the white side of the Open Sicilian, I find myself asking, why did I bother?
Daniel J. King
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My dad used to say that life's a journey, but somebody screwed up and lost the map.
Rachel Caine -
I've read about 80 books a year for the past 50 years. I come from cultural breeding. I don't have a cellphone. When you spend all your time checking your cellphone messages, or updating your Facebook (of course I don't have a Facebook page) then you don't have any time for reading.
Vaclav Smil -
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
William Lyon Phelps