William McIlvanney Quotes
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
Ted Demme -
The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.
Daniel Cudmore -
My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.
Usher -
I just think people should be able to express themselves.
Vince Carter -
Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!
Kate Hudson -
When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.
Ian Mckellen
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I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
Waris Ahluwalia -
My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.
Kangana Ranaut -
And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.
Lajos Kossuth -
Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.
Dan Ariely -
The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a bus, on a field trip. It was called 'Mystery Man,' and in retrospect, it was the beginning of my exploration of what it was like to have a man in your life, because I didn't.
Kat Edmonson -
The Internet, Facebook, synagogue pamphlets, and the plethora of TV channels and cellular networks in our lives increasingly blur the boundary between the public and private sphere.
Yair Lapid
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My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.
Nathan Myhrvold -
Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.
Van Cliburn -
I say the last 10 percent of the way to perfection takes so much of your life that it isn't worth the effort. This overzealous attitude is what creates religious fanatics, body Nazis, and athletes who are exceedingly dull to converse with.
Yvon Chouinard -
I kick-kick game, can't injure Nicki. That's why they nick-nicknamed me Ninja Nicki.
Nicki Minaj -
My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.
Jack Kirby -
In New York, they kind of rode with me from day one: they understand who I am.
William Michael Griffin Jr.
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Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.
William Shakespeare -
If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life.
Igor Sikorsky -
I know generals who disagree with Barack Obama, but I don't think these people are idiots or been reduced to rubble.
Eric Bolling -
Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.
William McIlvanney