Ulysses S. Grant Quotes
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.
Laura Benanti -
Nothing is unfilmable.
Salman Rushdie -
I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
Warren G. Harding -
Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
A. R. Ammons -
I am always locked in my design studio.
Valentino Garavani
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I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.
Vicente Fox -
I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
Malcolm Wilson -
I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
Adam Brody -
I like it when my wife is in her jeans, with very little makeup. But, I also appreciate the range - the different ways she can look. The moment she walks out all dressed up and... whoa! That's always good.
Patrick Wilson -
I'm not interested in just beautiful girls and beautiful clothes.
Francesco Carrozzini -
The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.
Hari Kondabolu -
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
Hannah Simone -
Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
B. F. Skinner -
I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.
Idris Elba -
As we began working toward the finale of 'Lost,' I knew there was no possible ending that was going to be universally loved, and I accepted that. We ended the story the way we wanted it to end, and we stand by it. On my Twitter feed, I still get ten to fifteen positive comments for every negative one.
Carlton Cuse
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
Rachel Field -
There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
H. R. Giger -
I have roles in plays that I hope that I'll be able to do one day. I might be doing them at, like, the East Wilton Playhouse in wherever. But I think that Edie Falco... to get something even resembling her type of roles, that would be amazing.
Mamie Gummer -
Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
Barton Gellman -
I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
Ulysses S. Grant