William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.William Makepeace Thackeray
Quotes to Explore
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
Beck -
Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
P. J. O'Rourke -
All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
Tammy Baldwin -
The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
Haile Gebrselassie -
I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
Francia Raisa -
You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.
Karen Allen
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I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you can play no matter what scheme you play in.
Malik Jackson -
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
Taslima Nasrin -
I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
Tammy Duckworth -
I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
Damien Chazelle -
If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
Karen Armstrong -
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
Kate Walsh
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
The Lakers are family. My kids don't have to switch schools. Little things like that are important. People don't think about things like that. I feel like something special is going to happen in this town.
Lamar Odom -
There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
Victor Hugo -
In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
Zhang Jindong -
Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
Brown Campbell -
I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.
J. B. Smoove
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
Sam Mendes -
As a serial investor who has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for startups, I know that the business plans coming out of incubators tend to be vetted and more thoroughly validated. The incubator's input into your business plan will make you look far more polished and experienced - even if you have never run a business before.
Jay Samit -
If another one of my Whole-Foods friends says my wife should have a home birth, I am going to punch all the soy on the planet.
Patton Oswalt -
The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.
Ken Venturi -
There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
William Makepeace Thackeray