Edmund Burke Quotes
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!Edmund Burke
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
Laura Linney -
Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
Viggo Mortensen -
People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
Walter Lippmann -
My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.
Carli Lloyd -
What Washington needs is adult supervision.
Barack Obama -
I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
Rajiv Ouseph
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
Maisie Williams -
It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
Parker Posey -
I am not in the business of suppressing books.
Salman Rushdie -
Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
Quentin Blake -
I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.
Vince Cable
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso -
I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
Ranbir Kapoor -
I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
Eden Sher -
Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
Carlos Ghosn -
If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
Patrick Ness -
I don't feel that this concept of disruptive technology is the solution for everybody. But I think it's very important for innovators to understand what we've learned about established companies' motivation to target obvious profitable markets - and about their inability to find emerging ones. The evidence is just overwhelming.
Clayton Christensen
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One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.
M. Ward -
Fortunately, the music from the first record really connected with people, and I was really proud of that.
Sam Hunt -
I'm used to big roles and lots of words.
Christopher Plummer -
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
Edmund Burke