J. L. Austin Quotes
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
Wallace Shawn -
Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
Walter Gilbert -
I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
Kate Moss -
Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
Wayne Rooney -
People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
Ja Rule
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
Ted Shackelford -
Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
Jack Prelutsky -
I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible, killer songs that also are hits, or I just don't have a chance.
Dan Hill -
When you're young, you're stupid.
Wendy Hiller -
To read too many books is harmful.
Mao Zedong -
I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.
Laura Mvula
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.
Dana Spiotta -
I don't think the elite class is only speaking the good English.
Mamata Banerjee -
Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.
Walter Dean Myers -
We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
Viktor Orban -
Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.
Carine Roitfeld
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I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama.
Ramakrishna -
Everyone’s chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-shaped holes.
Andrea Gibson -
I think men know to seduce women though words and conversation and nice gestures. That's much sexier than when a man uses muscle.
Donatella Versace -
Sacred play is anything that takes you into that right hemisphere of your brain. It turns out that this move away from left to the right hemisphere, that sense of expansiveness and everything, can be accomplished through unusual rhythmic action, or any action that requires so much attention away from words that you cannot think in words.
Martha Beck -
Twitter taught me how to become better at writing jokes because it forces you to chip away at all the extraneous words.
Peter Serafinowicz -
Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
J. L. Austin