Carson McCullers Quotes
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I am not really brand-conscious; I pick out clothes that appeal to me regardless of the label, but I consider my style very American.
Tadashi Shoji -
I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.
Zaha Hadid -
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Karl Marx -
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
Vernon Howard -
Growing up it all seems so one-sidedOpinions all providedThe future pre-decidedDetached and subdividedIn the mass production zoneNowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone - Subdivisions (1982)
Neil Peart Rush -
My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.'
Alan King
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We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.
W. G. Sebald -
There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away. They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless. I've been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That's the stuff my dreams are made of.
Al Pacino -
I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
an off-screen persona of Globally Conscious Earth Mother and an aggressive on-screen embodiment of Kali, Goddess of Destruction.
Angelina Jolie -
A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.
Antonio Damasio -
The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.
Oscar Wilde
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My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.
Oscar Wilde -
Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
Oscar Wilde -
Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.
Napoleon Hill -
It was weird to be in a movie that's very clearly a period piece like Killing Reagan, but that's about a time that's within my own memory. That's really weird. And conscious memory, not just vague.
Cynthia Nixon -
[ The aim to be big] is not a joke about my size. It's just that I'm a dreamer, but I'm following through with it. I believe anyone can do it as long as they focus and have a game plan.
Gabriel Iglesias -
... we become so accustomed to meet with injustice, and, if we are at all sincere with our own hearts, are so conscious of being guity of it ourselves, that we learn to look upon it almost as a necessity.
Elizabeth Missing Sewell
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I am very conscious that I am not wise at all.
Socrates -
I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.
Salvador Dali -
Much of the science we need to know and turn to for wisdom on environmental issues is precisely the same science that underlies evolution. That's posed a difficulty for some churches.
George Fisher Cannibal Corpse -
In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work on its own. Poetic instinct consists of an alert tension.
Octavio Paz -
When things don't work well in the bedroom, they don't work well in the living room either.
William Masters -
The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.
Carson McCullers