Raymond Williams Quotes
A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.Raymond Williams
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
Gary Wolf -
'Dhruva' is not a first person narrative of Siddharth Abhimanyu.
Ram Charan -
I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.
Halsey -
It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.
Gary Hamel -
A Constitution should be short and obscure.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
Oliver Stone
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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
Walt Whitman -
I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.
Eddie Murphy -
Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
Carl Sandburg -
In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.
G-Eazy -
I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.
Adam Pascal -
We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.
Katee Sackhoff
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Fashion definitely has the power to change the world.
Abbey Clancy -
What was critical for the maintenance of pegged exchange rates, I argue in this book, was protection for governments from pressure to trade exchange rate stability for other goals.
Barry Eichengreen -
I cannot speak In happy tones; the tear drops on my cheek Show I am sad;But I can speak Of grace to suffer with submission meek,Until made glad.I cannot feelThat all is well, when dark'ning clouds concealThe shining sun;But then I knowGod lives and loves; and say, since it is so, 'Thy will be done.'
Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
I've mis-signed many a book Rollins or Clemens. My readers quickly become aware. Booksellers will often promote me under both names, and I do plug both at signings. Generally, the fantasy reader has no problem going into the suspense genre. It's harder for the typical suspense reader to go the other direction.
James Rollins -
A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
Paul Wellstone -
If you have been divorced once - male or female, but especially for females - and you're over 40 you're actually a commodity. It means you were able to commit once, and you'll do it again.
Patti Stanger
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A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn and sacred in his own eyes. He is able to laugh at himself and is not offended when others make him a subject whereon to exercise their wit.
John Lancaster Spalding -
The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I've been told to go back to my country so many times, I can't even count.
Pramila Jayapal -
I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
Daddy Yankee -
Sometimes when things get kind of frantic, it helps to call my husband Steve, because I think he's got a real good sense of where everything's gonna be in a few years.
Christa McAuliffe -
A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.
Raymond Williams