Richard Russo Quotes
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When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.
Yuna -
I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
Randall Jarrell -
In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.
Rachael Ray
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I never thought about money; otherwise, I would have left aged 26 when Real Madrid and Barcelona wanted me.
Francesco Totti -
Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
Daniel Dennett -
I haven't done as many films as I would have liked. A lot of my contemporaries have done more. I don't have 'I will be a movie star' emblazoned on anything, but I'd like do a bit more screen stuff and then when the time is right come back to theatre. When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.
Dan Stevens -
I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
Maajid Nawaz -
I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.
Abby Wambach -
Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I'm a real girly-girl.
Olivia Culpo -
Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them.
Zoe Wanamaker -
I believe I've got the best of both worlds - a modern man with old fashioned values. I'm happy to be a house husband but won't let my wife carry her own bag.
Ian Watson -
Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
Malcolm Forbes -
I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.
Malcolm Mclaren -
Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.
Dallas Roberts
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I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.
Olafur Eliasson -
Setbacks help you to concentrate.
Lindsey Vonn -
When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
Ha-Joon Chang -
I am learning how to be detached. I hate myself for being so possessive, not of material things, but just of love and people.
Usha Uthup -
Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.
Richard Russo