Warren Zevon Quotes
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
J. G. Ballard -
I like to think that I could praise the good book of someone I personally dislike. I try not to comment on the person, to be insulting, but I have no trouble being insulting to the work.
Walter Kirn -
Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super confident and puts a lot of money into it, sometimes movies can go unwatched or unnoticed.
Viggo Mortensen -
Viola Davis is a perfect example of somebody who's so much better than the parts she has the opportunity to play.
Mahershala Ali -
I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.
Pat Bowlen -
Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.
Abhishek Bachchan
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I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.
Salma Hayek -
There's more to life than physical and material.
Ziggy Marley -
It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
Qandeel Baloch -
For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.
Malaika Arora Khan -
I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.
Eddie Marsan -
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
Gary Larson
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I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music, sex, race, or consumerism. I try to examine it and scrutinize it to the point where I can write a song.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.
Samantha Morton -
I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
Nas -
But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
Fareed Zakaria -
It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.
Karrie Webb -
Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.
Tammy Duckworth
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
Ophelia Lovibond -
I think Bob Dylan told me that he turned down twenty interviews that year, and I was the only one that he sat down and did an interview with. And, he said that it was one of his highlights, and it was one of my highlights. And, I was very glad to talk with Bob. I found out that he was a good fan of mine, and that tickled me.
Ralph Stanley -
There are certain people who will always seek to criticize. This has nothing to do with you. It must be hard to be inside their head, you know? I mean if they find so much fault in everyone around them... then one can only imagine the faults they must see in themselves.
Hannah Hart -
Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.
Eduard Shevardnadze -
We couldn't stop their second chance points down the stretch. I thought we had a good shot at winning the game. It was well fought.
Phil Jackson -
I'm not a big jazz fan.
Warren Zevon