William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did.William Makepeace Thackeray
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
Ike Barinholtz -
It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
Barbra Streisand -
I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
Zeresenay Alemseged -
As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
Jack Henry Abbott -
Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
Victor Kiam -
The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
Hamid Karzai
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
Cameron Diaz -
Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
Viktor E. Frankl -
All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
Tab Hunter -
'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?
Foster Friess -
I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.
Gayle Forman -
It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
Paddy Ashdown
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
Irving Thalberg -
As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
Natasha Lyonne -
The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.
Harold H. Greene -
If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
Talcott Parsons -
I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
Garrett Dillahunt -
In hip-hop, there's not a lot of love. There's not a lot of love being spread. It's always like 'I'm stuntin' on you raps, or I'm better than you raps.' It's not a lot of 'Yo man, I idolize you raps.'
J. Cole
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Here in Ohio, the hardcore scene is a big thing, so some of our good friends are in hardcore bands. So we've had to figure out how the heck we get these people to respect us.
Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots -
I can play any instrument if you give me 20 minutes.
Brittany Murphy -
Our collective experience has shown that when women have the power to make their own choices, good things happen.
Madeleine Albright -
Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
Dan Quayle -
The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
Malcolm McDowell -
A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did.
William Makepeace Thackeray