Celia Johnson Quotes
I'd have liked to have leant against walls in thrillers.
Celia Johnson
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
Patrick Carney
The Black Keys
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I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.
Ice T
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I liked to be around my friends, but my dad was out there, day in and day out.
Malik Jackson
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There are lots of wonderful actors doing animated films these days, but I prefer it when you can't recognise them - it means they've really become the character.
Imelda Staunton
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It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
Ferdinand Foch
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Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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The so-called sexual revolution is not, as advertised, a liberation of sexual behavior but rather its reversal. In former days, even under Victoria, sexual intercourse was the natural end and culmination of heterosexual relations. Now one begins with genital overtures instead of a handshake, then waits to see what will turn up (e.g., might become friends later). Like dogs greeting each other nose to tail and tail to nose.
Walker Percy
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Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.
Eugene Ionesco
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Light does not come from light, but from darkness.
Mircea Eliade
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I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.
Maria Callas
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The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have control of the Senate, we really don't.
Steve Chabot
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Never put an age limit on your dreams.
Dara Torres
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America rests on shared values rather than shared ethnicity.
Joseph Nye
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Sometimes a majority simply means that all the fools are on the same side.
Claude Maxwell MacDonald
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Inside him, twenty years dissolved and mixed into one complex, swirling whole. Everything that had accumulated over the years-- all he had seen, all the words he has spoken, all the values he had held-- all of it coalesced into one solid, thick pillar in his heart, the core of which was spinning like a potter's wheel. Wordlessly, Tengo observed the scene, as if watching the destruction and rebirth of a planet.
Haruki Murakami
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I'm hooked on Polanski's films, his psychological thrillers. I love 'Rosemary's Baby,' I love 'Repulsion.'
Vera Farmiga
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Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables, on our walls. We use them - most of us don't even notice them - and then they vanish without fanfare.
Orhan Pamuk
