William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
Eduardo Chillida -
Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.
Gary Johnson -
In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
Fedor Emelianenko -
Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn't take them all the time.
Caitlyn Jenner -
I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special.
Mahesh Babu
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
Karl Kraus -
Schmoozers are brownnosers, sycophants more suited to middle management than to the Wild West of the entrepreneurial world.
Tahl Raz -
As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. -
There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
E. B. White -
If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
Calvin Johnson -
Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
Rachel Kushner
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
Karl Amadeus Hartmann -
The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.
Sir Isaac Brock KB -
When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
Natalie Portman -
'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'
Floyd Skloot -
I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
Rahul Kohli -
I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
Naomi Campbell
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I don't have the same access or time to gain access to music the way I used to.
Liz Phair -
Competing in pageants made me hyper-aware of the unfair expectations society places on women in terms of youth and beauty. But it also gave me empathy for women who use beauty as a creative exploration. When expressed healthfully, dressing up, doing hair, crafting makeup, etc., is an art form.
Rae Carson -
Very few women get asked to be in the swimsuit issue, and I'm really proud to be one of so many beautiful and empowering women.
Caroline Wozniacki -
I'm in a constant state of gratitude.
Mandy Patinkin -
He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even make himself stretch out his hand to switch on the light. The simple transition from intention to action seemed an unimaginable miracle.
Vladimir Nabokov -
Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
William Makepeace Thackeray