William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.William Makepeace Thackeray
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
Said Sayrafiezadeh -
I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
A few years ago, I found out that there's a lot of Gypsy blood on my mother's side. I'm wild in that way - I've been brought up to do my own thing.
FKA twigs -
We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
Fat Joe -
In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
Ralph Fiennes -
Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.
Dale Murphy
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There is no way Israel will deal with the Palestinians if the Palestinians do not understand the suffering of the Jewish people.
Daniel Barenboim -
We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
Gary L. Francione -
Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
Rachel Boston -
I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.
Yehuda Amichai
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I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just because it's the wrong side of the creator-consumer barrier for me. I'm a visual writer. I think in moving 3D images and write down what I observe.
Karen Traviss -
Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It's not surprising that sometimes these nerves and muscles fail us.
Kate Forsyth -
Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
Yitzhak Rabin -
Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
Lao Tzu -
I feel like something I've wanted to do for a really long time, in a feature film or anything, is playing a rocker. Somewhere where I can be on a stage and have a guitar or a microphone and just kind of jam out.
Olivia Holt -
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Carl Sagan
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Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
Fay Wray -
There's the 5% of the people that are wise and righteous and I'd definitely be amongst them, building, communicating, and continuing to try and figure out how we can awaken the 85%. The 85% are walking around [like] cattle, not realizing the things we do, the violence we do; you see people falling victim to all sorts of unnecessary things because they just don't know the way and nobody is showing them the way.
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen -
The essential nature cannot be corporeal, yet it is also clear that this soul is present in a particular bodily part, and this one of the parts having control over the rest.
Aristotle -
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
Willa Cather -
Once you realize that what I’m saying is true and comes from the heart, then it’s easy. But if you see it all as a façade and just a presentation of affected emotion, then it’s not so easy, it’ll just confuse you.
Peter Daniell Doherty Babyshambles -
If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.
William Makepeace Thackeray