Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE (Rebecca West) Quotes
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It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.
Pardis Sabeti
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
Ramana Maharshi
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I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'
Patrick deWitt
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What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.
Abraham Maslow
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My kids are the most inspiring thing that pushes me. It used to be because they were born, and I had to take care of them. Now it's because my son raps, and he's better than me. So now I gotta keep up with him, you know what I'm saying?
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school.
Idina Menzel
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'Boyz-n-the-Hood' was actually supposed to be written for Eazy's group. He had a group out in New York called Home Boys Only, called HBO. One of them looked like LL Cool J. Eazy wanted to write a song for them, a street song, like what we were doing on the mix tapes. So when I wrote it, it was too West Coast for them.
Ice Cube
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The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years.
Ted Lindsay
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'I am of no faith,' said Aenea. 'If one defines faith as belief in the supernatural.'
Dan Simmons
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I had anger but never hate. Before the war, I was too busy studying to hate. After the war, I thought, What's the use? To hate would be to reduce myself.
Elie Wiesel
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If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.
Jacques Chirac
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My sound definitely pays a lot of homage to the Nineties, but not just the dance music. There's also breakbeats, R&B, the big ballads. It's that whole era infused with very modern sounds.
Kiesa Rae Ellestad
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Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried.
Hilary Mantel
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I think I am difficult to satisfy, because when I win something, I'm already thinking about the next step, and that is maybe a problem for me. I'm not enjoying the moment. I'm already on the mission to win the next trophy.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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I do know what my first meal in the next world would be... Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everything.
Rachael Ray
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Nowadays, it's not more about the sport; it's about the business. All the boxers became businessmen, not boxers. They look just to get the money, not the glory.
Vasyl Lomachenko
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Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.
Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE
