Rex Stout Quotes
A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them.Rex Stout
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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
Ovid -
I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.
Gabrielle Union -
The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
Hamza Yusuf -
I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
I hate wasting people's time.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
I've heard stories of people meeting the loves of their lives online, and that's great. But it freaks me out.
Dakota Johnson
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When I was on Broadway, people would really just recognize me around the theater. When you're showing up on commercials and posters, the scope of people recognizing you gets a little wider.
Dan Fogler -
Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it.
Victoria Jackson -
Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.
Laura Wade -
People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.
Yoko Ono -
In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. People that love sex. That's me. People that love people. That's me. And people that make mistakes. That's me also.
R. Kelly -
I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.
Naveen Andrews
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I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.
Illeana Douglas -
It's certain that, when hearing from any of those people the story of their sexual marathons, a vague suspicion pervades us, at about the seventh deflowering.
Fernando Pessoa -
Of course. All the best people are.
Lou Reed -
Everything about my life was culturally rich, and all the people I met sort of reinforced the wackiness that was normally inside of me. No one said, 'You can't do that,' until I got to real record companies, that is.
Nile Rodgers Chic -
When I was a child, I lived in Morocco, and I would always buy a lot of beads from the markets and to make jewellery for friends. Later, at 18, I would do my own clothes and make my own patterns. When I first came to New York, people just assumed I was a stylist because I was so into fashion.
Maripol -
In fact it's quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it.
Derek Bailey
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Thinking visually is my starting point, and then the writing happens.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance -
Such times of crisis have inevitably brought 'music of conscience' to the fore and I expect we will be hearing more and more of it in the immediate future. When people feel empowered to come together and raise their voices, also will mean raising their voices in song as well.
Peter Yarrow -
In due time you'll learn there is life after a lost love!
Brenda Jackson -
Being humble matters.
Kevin Hart -
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
Alice James -
A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them.
Rex Stout