William Stafford Quotes
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You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country, but you can't out of one side of your mouth say, 'Yes, we're for tax cuts, we're for spending discipline, and we're for bringing down the debt.'
Harold Ford, Jr. -
In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
Barry Humphries -
I'm not the girl for super high fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.
Halle Berry -
Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
Feist -
I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.
Fernando Botero -
I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become one of those holy people. I was holier than thou.
Yvonne De Carlo
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If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.
Nancy Gibbs -
A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.
Nathan Fielder -
When online business first appeared, a lot of operations would take your order and then disappear.
Maelle Gavet -
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
J. P. Morgan -
I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.
Ed Bradley -
Celebrities are not necessarily the richest people of all, but on the face of it, they seem to be representative of the very richest people.
Nancy Jo Sales
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I do not have very much office experience.
B. J. Novak -
We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.
Carl Levin -
As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.
P. T. Barnum -
The populace is like the sea, motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
Livy -
I am hugely insecure and desperate to be loved and I want my reader to adore me, to a disturbing, stalkerish degree.
Kevin Barry -
Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
Elie Wiesel
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Any business that does not innovate will fail over time.
Nolan Bushnell -
I don't even have my own computer.
Daley Thompson -
When I wrote 'The Pregnant Widow' three or four years ago, I tried to reread my first novel, 'The Rachel Papers,' because their young heroes are the same age. I couldn't finish it. It seemed to me so technically slapdash and weak.
Martin Amis -
From the outside, being an artist seems like a dream life, but there are much darker aspects to it.
Jean-Michel Jarre -
Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.
William Stafford