Anthony Giddens Quotes
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
Kate Christensen -
Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.
Indra Devi -
Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
Zoe Cassavetes -
Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
Patrick MacGill -
Playing on the Burj Al Arab helipad was an unforgettable experience, and the view of Dubai was incredible.
Ma Long -
I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.
Edgar Wright
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I climb mountains.
Laura Schlessinger -
I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.
Jackie Collins -
A lot of my music has ambiguity and room for people to interpret.
Verite -
After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.
Radha Mitchell -
For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'
Olivia Munn -
Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn't allow her to follow the usual script that powerful women are expected to follow - 'don't hate me for my success, don't hate me for my power.'
Naomi Wolf
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Place honey on the altars and die, You lovers that are bitter at heart.
Wallace Stevens -
It wasn't easy tolerating him talking this way to her, to bear his scorn, his ridicule, his insults, his walking past her like she was nothing but a house cat. But after four years of marriage, Mariam saw clearly how much a woman could tolerate when she was afraid. And Mariam was afraid.
Khaled Hosseini -
When we do well, we do the best comedy on TV. That's not ego; that's just the way it is.
Lorne Michaels -
I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died.
Jimmy Swaggart -
Sometimes people will approach me on the street and ask me very personal questions about my dating life. Fans talk to me like they know me, and it's like, 'You don't know me. You know my character, but you really don't know me.'
Lili Reinhart -
You're always concerned for your character. You should be.
James Callis
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I feel like I came to acting late in a way.
David Duchovny -
You want banks to take some risk, but intelligent risk.
Charles Schwab -
The legacy of the great monotheistic religions is the expectation of a single over-arching explanation for the Universe. ...There is no logical reason why the Universe should not contain surds of arbitrary elements that do not relate to the rest.
John D. Barrow -
If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.
Ted Nugent -
I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.
Maurice Sendak -
The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.
Anthony Giddens