William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.William Makepeace Thackeray
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I'll sleep when I'm dead.
Warren Zevon -
I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
Ram Kapoor -
Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
Nat King Cole -
It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
Zora Neale Hurston -
Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
Barbara Kingsolver -
I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
Kate Millett
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
Barry Sonnenfeld -
Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree.
Otto Schily -
As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.
Randy Wayne -
I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
Nancy Wake -
I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
The core of my personality consists of many selves.
Hans Bender
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It was improv that really helped me start coming up with recipes and just believe in my instincts. That's why the first recipe I made up was 'I Ain't Chicken Chicken' because I finally felt bold and fearless in the kitchen, which was an entirely new feeling for me.
Aarti Sequeira -
We set up a small bitcoin and ethereum mining operation... that miraculously now is actually making a lot of money.
Abigail Johnson -
Not that I went into the Olympics with any doubt, but my holiday plans afterwards depended on how well I did - bronze, silver or gold.
Adam Peaty -
I always try to live in the moment.
Daniel Bryan -
I try to be - well, not holy - but my whole family is very religious, and I want to be like that, too. So I try my hardest to be more in touch with the Lord.
Nathan Gamble -
God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
Dallas Willard
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My parents came over from Barbados in the late 1950s and early '60s.
David Harewood -
My greatest love is my children, and they have inspired me to fight and stand up for the right things.
Abi Morgan -
I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.
Deepak Chopra -
There are too many fawning entertainment shows out there and not one of them is making fun of it all.
David Spade -
Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
William Makepeace Thackeray