Beatrice Lillie Quotes
The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.Beatrice Lillie
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
Malin Akerman -
If I could have anything - you know, and this is across the board for any presidential candidate - I would have a greater acknowledgment of history in our policy and in our affairs.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
Zooey Deschanel -
Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle.
Owen Hart -
If you ask a founder how their company is doing, they always say, 'Oh it's great. We're totally crushing it,' and that's almost never true.
Sam Altman -
Just because one happens to be wealthy, it doesn't mean you are naturally any good at building an investment operation that is world-class or successful.
J. B. Pritzker
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Nobody ever seems to want my advice about serious stuff. People will be like: 'Who made that sweater?' Or 'How did you get your hair so straight?' They don't to come to me for the relationship advice or deep stuff. In fact, my little sister actually hides from me.
Lauren Graham -
We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.
Antonio Damasio -
Reality is devoid of any intrinsic identity that can be captured by any one single proposition - that is what Buddha meant by "voidness."
Dalai Lama -
A bully is fighting out of a need to dominate. And is usually unwilling to take the consequences.
Keith Olbermann -
Radio is so cutthroat, but I do feel like the music industry is structured so differently than it used to be. I'm amazed and in awe of artists who can build a parallel universe that's so big and clearly defined that the mainstream finally has to pay attention.
Caroline Polachek Chairlift -
Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.
Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
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I gave my wife a gift certificate for Christmas. She ran out to exchange it for a bigger size.
Milton Berle -
We are optimistic of achieving the target. We are already working with our partners and also reaching out to raise more resources to meet the target by 2006.
Babatunde Osotimehin -
I believe that the artist's feelings are in some way generative. And I suspect that much of the artist's most productive emotion - not all of it but much of it - is felt in the course of playing around with form.
Carter Ratcliff -
People have said to me, 'Why don't you change your name?' And I've said, 'Fine, come up with a better name and we'll change it.' But no one has done that.
Bill Bright -
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
Jonathan Swift -
As compromised as their marriage might be, part of her still believed in her vows. She loved the man he'd been, and she loved the man she knew he could be.
Nicholas Sparks
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America's 'social contract' is equal opportunity... yet we have failed in achieving that seminal goal.
George Kaiser -
Communications and commerce are global; investment is mobile; technology is almost magical; and ambition for a better life is now universal. We earn our livelihood in peaceful competition with people all across the earth. Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.
Bill Clinton -
There is a real problem with the lack of diversity, specifically in genre films and the superheroes our kids grow up watching and emulating, they can't really identify with. When you see the same thing, over and over again, and it seems not to speak of you and your heritage and your culture, it leaves you out of this world, a little bit. It gives a certain social distance with your world.
Djimon Hounsou -
The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.
Beatrice Lillie