Washington Irving Quotes
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.Washington Irving
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
Damien Hirst -
I don't think I have a signature.
J. J. Abrams -
Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
Umberto Eco -
Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
J. B. Smoove -
The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I've maintained the mentality of a musician throughout it all, which I'm proudest of. And I'm still playing on people's records and singing on people's records.
Vince Gill -
Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
Tamara Ecclestone
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
Damien Chazelle -
Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
Walter Winchell -
I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
Kate O'Mara -
The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.
Ian Mcewan -
Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.
Harold Ford, Jr. -
I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.
Dana Fox
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Fashion is fun, ridiculously fun. But it's base and it's wrong. You're not doing anything good for the world. You're just saying, 'Buy it, buy it, buy it.'
Waris Dirie -
His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
Edmund Waller -
Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.
Marc Almond Soft Cell -
Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.
Famke Janssen -
Every day, you're only as good as your last show.
Oprah Winfrey -
The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
A. E. Housman
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When a man acts in ways that annoy us we wish to think him wicked, and we refuse to face the fact that his annoying behaviour is a result of antecedent causes which, if you follow them long enough, will take you beyond the moment of his birth and therefore to events for which he cannot be held responsible by any stretch of imagination.
Bertrand Russell -
There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process.
Kurt Angle -
I think Twitter is best when it sparks conversations elsewhere. To use YouTube and Facebook and all the tools we have available to us today to respond and also promote and answer and engage is awesome.
Jack Dorsey -
Well, that is one of the three foundations of learning: see much, study much, suffer much.
Lloyd Alexander -
Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home.
Jayma Mays -
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
Washington Irving