William Styron Quotes
My life and work have been far from free of blemish, and so I think it would be unpardonable for a biographer not to dish up the dirt.William Styron
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I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
Barry Jenkins -
That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
Gabriela Sabatini -
Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
Tariq Ramadan -
Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and southern hemispheres and moving itself around the world. By the time it gets back to where it started, it's changed sufficiently so that people are no longer immune.
Nathan Wolfe -
People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
Victor Hugo
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Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
Ban Ki-moon -
I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
Adam Lambert -
I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
Zach Gilford -
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
Walter Lippmann -
I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
Ted Cruz -
This is America, not a banana republic.
Vincent Bugliosi
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Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.
J. Philippe Rushton -
I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
Valerie Plame -
I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.
Larry Hagman -
I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.
Taylor Swift -
I grew up listening to a lot of different types of music, and R&B in particular was something that I loved - Aaliyah, Usher, Alicia Keys, TLC.
Yuna -
I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.
Kate Beckinsale
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And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield.
Don McLean -
Pity those who cannot say: Thy will be done not mine, today.
Elaine A. Cannon -
My style was impetuous, my defenses were impregnable, and I was ferocious.
Mike Tyson -
My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.
Jackie Robinson -
My life and work have been far from free of blemish, and so I think it would be unpardonable for a biographer not to dish up the dirt.
William Styron