Barbara Holland Quotes
Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy. ... The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped like a rat in a drainpipe.Barbara Holland
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
Quintilian -
Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
Lady Gaga -
Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
Victor Ponta -
It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
Nancy Sinatra -
I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
Randy Houser -
The job as a coach is difficult.
Ottmar Hitzfeld
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I don't do meetings.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I am really addicted to music.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
Cavour -
Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.
Rachel Stevens -
There isn't a person on Earth who couldn't use a connection with nature.
Nalini Nadkarni -
Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
Vernor Vinge
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One of my favorites is Angela Merkel because I think she's been an extraordinary, strong leader during difficult times in Europe, which has obvious implications for the rest of the world and, most particularly, our country... her bravery in the face of the refugee crisis is something that I am impressed by.
Hillary Clinton -
But please remember, especially in these times of group-think and the right-on chorus, that no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended.
Alice Walker -
I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audition for one play in high school - 'Auntie Mame.' I got a small part as the fiancee who comes on in the end. I got laughs. I wasn't shy at all doing the part. I can do anything on stage and write it off as a character.
Laurie Metcalf -
I've worked myself to exhaustion before. I was so young, and I thought I could do everything; it was just too much for my body and my mind.
Penelope Cruz -
There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.
Matthew Simpson -
Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.
Janis Ian -
Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.
Seamus Heaney -
The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.
Orlando Bloom -
Every election, a presidential candidate inevitably proposes a new cabinet agency. The idea is that this is the only way to solve a particular problem. Just create more government.
Christopher Buckley -
Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy. ... The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped like a rat in a drainpipe.
Barbara Holland