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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
Obviously we had to study Shakespeare at school, but to be honest, I was not a fan. I found the language very difficult, and I didn't enjoy watching it or studying it. I auditioned five times for the Royal Shakespeare Company early on in my career, and I didn't even get past the first rounds.
Samuel Barnett
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The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend - and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him. The uses of prayer are thus only subjective.
Immanuel Kant -
Truth is always straightforward.
Sophocles -
I'm the slowest driver in the world.
Anthony Hopkins -
Sometimes I even tell my relatives and my friends that I get a lot of love from the fans, and I'm not sure if it's deserved.
Diego Costa -
I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
Mackenzie Astin -
Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
William Makepeace Thackeray