William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's going to stop.
Natalie Zea
Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.
Walter Kirn
I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been... Daft Punk was a huge one for me, I bought their main record when I was nine; at a young age, I was into music. The Prodigy, Gorillaz were big ones.
Flume
I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
Olivia d'Abo
Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.
Adam Cohen
I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.
Raf Simons
I started to travel like this at the age of 15 so for me, it's normal. Some days you get tired and you feel, 'I want to stay at home a little bit more,' but it's only the moment.
Rafael Nadal
I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.
Kate Bush
The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.
Paolo Sorrentino
My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
Mae Whitman
When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.
Garrett Hedlund
When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and let nothing interfere or impede the forward motion toward the end of that rainbow. And after 50-something years of rockin' out, you still realise there is no end to that distant rainbow until one's last sunset.
Randy Bachman
The Guess Who
Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.
Olivier Theyskens
I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.
Sam Rockwell
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
F. Sionil Jose
Maybe it's because I was named for him, but I've always wanted to meet Nathaniel Hawthorne. It's oversimplifying, but all Hawthorne's short stories and novels are, in one way or another, about guilt. Something profoundly disturbing must have happened to him at an early age. I'd like to know what that was.
Nathaniel Philbrick
It has been possible to trace historically back to a very early age the taxes which were imposed on medicines, spices and similar substances in German towns. Thus, for instance, one finds that in the year 1500, thirteen, in 1540, thirty-eight, and in 1708, already one hundred and twenty vegetable oils are mentioned.
Otto Wallach
You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.
Eddie Campbell
There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future: the Establishment and the Movement. At times the resistance is reanimated, the schism runs under the world and appears in Literature, Philosophy, Church, State and social customs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I bring the staple of my culture.
Erykah Badu
Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
Too many books are full of recipes that aren't doable at home. They are purely aspirational. They are quite frightening, even for me.
Yotam Ottolenghi
I love '90s grunge and punk.
Alice Dellal
You read the past in some old faces.
William Makepeace Thackeray
