Alphonse Daudet Quotes
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I have no political ax to grind; I just find it absurd that huge billion-dollar corporations can take over elections. I just find it insane that, for instance, we give tax breaks to people like myself making millions of dollars, while there're no tax breaks for working people. That, to me, is not a political issue, that's a life issue.
Adam McKay -
The thrill of acting is making a character real. Modeling is the opposite of real. It's being fake in front of the camera.
Cara Delevingne -
I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.
Ziyi Zhang -
For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.
Mahmoud Darwish -
I'm always a little apprehensive about 'decoding' fictional stories.
Adrian Tomine -
I am mindful of achieving the right balance in my life and am working hard on that also. To enjoy the little moments of goodness when they appear, to be present with the people I love and to spread light wherever possible.
Kylie Minogue
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If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.
Alison Lurie -
If you make your prayers an expression of gratitude and thanksgiving for the blessings you have already received, instead of requests for what you do not have, you will obtain results a great deal faster.
Napoleon Hill -
They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.
Betty Smith -
Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.
Ken Robinson -
He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.
Aristotle -
The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I propose to distinguish these bodies by calling those anions which go to the anode of the decomposing body; and those passing to the cathode, cations; and when I have occasion to speak of these together, I shall call them ions.
Michael Faraday -
Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?
Mahatma Gandhi -
The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is the one calling in which at the beginning the only exertion is that of self-indulgence; all the prizes are at the commencement. It is the ever-new embodiment of the old fable of the sale of the soul to the Devil. The tempter offers wealth, comfort, excitement, but in return the victim must sell her soul, nor does the other party forget to exact his due to the uttermost farthing.
William Booth -
The mirror that Strindberg held up to Nature was a cracked one. It was cracked in a double sense -- it was crazy. It gave back broken images of a world which it made look like the chaos of a lunatic dream.
Robert Wilson Lynd -
Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When I'm not acting, I'm writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking them up.
Dan Aykroyd -
I think the food giants are realizing that one of the big myths of them is that they can innovate.
Michael Moss -
Distrust the man who smiles before he speaks.
Alphonse Daudet