Cecil Beaton Quotes
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
H. R. McMaster -
How many times have you opened a book, read the first few sentences and made a snap decision about whether to buy it? When it's your book that's coming under this casual-but-critical scrutiny, you want the reader to be instantly hooked. The way to accomplish this is to create compelling opening sentences.
Nancy Kress -
Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
Lajos Egri -
We have people working for us full-time because they were forced to retire at 65. I know that I never want to stop working, and I am glad that I can offer positions to others who feel the same way.
Carl Karcher -
I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.
Patrick Ewing -
Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
P. J. O'Rourke
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My story about becoming an actor is a completely non-romantic one. I became an actor because my parents were actors, and it seemed like a very... I knew I was going to act all my life, but I didn't know that I was going to be a professional actor. I thought I was just going to work as an actor every now and then.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
Never refuse a breath mint - you don't know why it's being offered.
Dana Perino -
At the resurrection, there will be the return of spirits to their bodies, the revivification of the bodies, and the remaking of the bodies.
Said Nursi -
If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.
Samuel Goldwyn -
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
C. S. Lewis -
I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often.
Brian Wilson
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First you put in, then you get out.
Brian Tracy -
Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick his nose again... and again... and again...
Joanne Rowling -
What if life is just a cosmic joke, like spiders in your underwear.
Jimmy Buffett -
Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Our junior national teams feature increasing numbers of kids from immigrant backgrounds, but who have grown up in Germany. Their roots are elsewhere, but they feel German. They draw on two cultures, and I believe that's been a real and visible factor in the football we've been playing. One of the best and abiding images was Cacau, a Christian with Brazilian roots, celebrating a goal with Mesut Ozil, a Muslim from a Turkish background. Ozil jumped on to Cacau's shoulders, and they gazed up into the stands, both wearing Germany shirts. It was wonderfully symbolic.
Oliver Bierhoff -
Every new medium has, within a short time of its introduction, been condemned as a threat to young people. Pulp novels would destroy their morals, TV would wreck their eyesight, video games would make them violent.
Hanna Rosin
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However honest you may be, your heart is small and your fist is tight. Fall again, mount again, learn how to count again!
Aaron Shepard -
Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
Antisthenes -
The assault of our enemies is not part of our life; it is only part of our experience; we throw it off and guard ourselves against it as against frost, storm, rain, hail, or any other of the external evils which may be expected to happen.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
I can't afford a whole new set of enemies.
Cecil Beaton