Hal Holbrook Quotes
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My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White.
Karen Duffy -
I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.'
Ian McShane -
Thirteen years I took on this last book.
Gay Talese -
I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.
Irving Harper -
If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.
Malcolm X
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A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.
Jerry Saltz -
I was the only westerner to succeed in a place that's like a toilet, and you always come out of a toilet with a smell.
David Reuben -
While some no other cause for life can give, but a dull habitude to live.
John Oldham -
The funny thing is, I was never purposely blonde. I just got highlights, and then you get highlights over highlights, and then it looks like you're blonde.
Cheri Oteri -
We are-proudly-a people with no sense of class or caste. We judge no man by his name or inheritance, but by what he does-and for what he stands.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
It means a lot when people understand what I'm going for.
Donna McKechnie
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I start to wonder if I’m being creepy. I mean, I am creeping. Does creep-ing automatically make one creep-y? Or are there dispensations for…romance? I bet all stalkers believe they’re being romantic. I did it for love, officer.
Laini Taylor -
Even when I'm singing on record there's a lot of times when I'll fight for a bit of imperfection. I might not have quite hit the note to the perfect pitch, but there was a soul in there and feeling that,to me, delivers the emotion of that moment. For me, doing a show, the excitement of singing live, and the possibility that you're not going to be perfect - that's the thrill of it.
Alicia Keys -
Between you and every goal that you wish to achieve, there is a series of obstacles, and the bigger the goal, the bigger the obstacles.
Brian Tracy -
I'm confident that America's foreign policy rebalance to the region will endure beyond my presidency because it's in the national interest of the United States.
Barack Obama -
The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.
George Dana Boardman Pepper -
The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
Victoria Hanley
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The mark of a saint is not perfection, but consecration. A saint is not a person without faults, but a man who has given himself without reserve to God.
Brooke Foss Westcott -
To Mark's benefit, ... I think he's been really consistent with his play since we started back this year. I think he's been confident and sure.
Joe Gibbs -
You've got loves of your life and breakups of your life, that kind of thing. They leave a mark. It stays with you, a bad aftertaste.
Jules Asner -
Mark Twain cannot be defined.
Hal Holbrook