Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Quotes
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'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour.
Samantha Bond -
I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
Natalie Dormer -
A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
Man Ray -
And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
Bainbridge Colby -
Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
Abu Bakr -
As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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I would kiss you, had I the courage.
Edouard Manet -
Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
I had no idea 'The Dream Weaver' would be so successful. Everything just fell into place with that album. I pioneered a number of ideas with that album and subsequent tour. The all-keyboard approach with no guitars was a new one, and I was one of the first to use a drum machine in concert. It was an amazing time.
Gary Wright -
I'm very passionate, very emotional, very sensitive. I've always been like that.
Banks -
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke -
Lo que me digo, ¿quién lo dice?
Antonio Porchia
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You recall a girl that's been in nearly every song?This is what I heard of course the story could be wrong.She's the one - I've been toldNow she's wearing a band of gold.Peggy Sue got married not long ago.
Buddy Holly -
Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
Maya Angelou -
I'm a pop enigma. I live and breathe every element in life. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold's for fried chicken. It's all these things at once, because, as a taste maker, I find the best of everything.
Kanye West -
A misanthrope I can understand - a womanthrope never.
Oscar Wilde -
It was just a wonderful experience, one for the memory book for sure. The sad thing about it was that the picture came under this absurd cloud of controversy. Here was a movie based on the central theme that racism is something that is taught, and it's illustrated by this story of a dog and the efforts of humans to re-train it after it had been trained to go after black people. And it created this ridiculous controversy and wound up being the last Hollywood movie that Sam [Fuller] made.
Curtis Hanson -
God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful, the world would have been a heap of ruins long ago.
Sadhu Sundar Singh
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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
Michael Korda -
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Sigmund Freud -
Ultimately what I want to do, I want to go back and do some more action movies.
Morris Chestnut -
To describe love – making is immoral and immodest; you know it is. To describe it as it really is, or would appear to you and me as lookers – on, would be to describe the most dreary farce, to chronicle the most tautological twaddle. To take note of sighs, hand – squeezes, looks at the moon, and so forth – does this business become our dignity as historians? Come away from those foolish young people – they don't want us; and dreary as their farce is, and tautological as their twaddle, you may be sure it amuses them, and that they are happy enough without us.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
I didn't really get to Led Zeppelin until I was in my 20s.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
If you want to succeed, limit yourself.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve