Benjamin Butler Quotes
Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the lightning bold should in its flash kill his cow?Benjamin Butler
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If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.
Karen Black -
I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
C. S. Lewis -
I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
Kara Lindsay -
I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.
Larry David -
I hate celebrities.
Manolo Blahnik -
I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I should lose my accent, and part of me thinks, 'How dare you! This is who I am! Millions of people want to sound like me!' But it's sensitive, and I have tried to change it, with little to no success.
Jack McBrayer
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Going to film school just made me love it. Before film school, I didn't really think much of acting. I was more into making music, but going to school and learning about it every day, it made me grow profound respect for the art.
Jacob Batalon -
Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few announcers have ever been treated to. Both Rod's and Johnny's shoes are huge; I can't think about filling them.
Randy West -
My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any portion of the brave men under my command.
Zachary Taylor -
Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.
Zooey Deschanel -
Your goals should be to have the system work for you instead of your working for the system! Be the hammer - not the nail!
E. Joseph Cossman -
To be honest, many of my well-wishers want me to play the solo lead in films. Maybe, it's time to think about it. In fact, I have cut down on signing up multi-starrer films.
Vijay Sethupathi
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I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
There are two areas where you can't stop people misbehaving: eating and sex
John Travolta -
The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on page 50, or page 150 and yes, on page 850.
Marge Piercy -
A group of protesters who are very unhappy at the rapid expansion of Starbucks have been repeatedly smashing the windows of a Starbucks store in Maine. Customers say it's been really inconvenient because, several times now, they've had to use the Starbucks across the street.
Conan O'Brien -
Really I've just gotta be making really great music that I love and not worrying too much about what other people are gonna think about it.
Rex Orange County -
I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.
Emily Dickinson
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I expect people to at least use some thought.
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders -
You can't dump one cup of sugar into the ocean and expect to get syrup. If everybody sweetened her own cup of water, then things would begin to change.
Florynce Kennedy -
Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the lightning bold should in its flash kill his cow?
Benjamin Butler