Emily Haines Quotes
That's the main work that I've done in my life - really wanting to get past that gender trap where there's a certain nudity in poetry. It's not about showing my soul, it's about observations.Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
Maj Sjowall -
One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
Sam Kean -
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
Sam Smith -
Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
Karl Liebknecht -
I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
Zach Galifianakis
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
Walter Kaufmann -
The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
Beau Willimon -
Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.
Eduard Shevardnadze -
My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
T-Pain -
My name is Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown. I am a devoted servant of Allah, and an unwavering devotee to His cause. For more than 30 years, I have been tormented and persecuted by my enemies for reasons of race and belief.
H. Rap Brown -
I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.
Karen O
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Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.
Edsger Dijkstra -
I have a new show now called 'The Bridge,' where I play a guy who's a real-life guy. My character's based on the life of a guy named Craig Bromell who was a cop for 12 years and then became head of the police association, so basically the president of the union for 85,000 cops.
Aaron Douglas -
Being God would be the ultimate.
Macy Gray -
The danger of asteroid or comet impact is one of the best reasons for getting into space … I'm very fond of quoting my friend Larry Niven: 'The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!'
Arthur C. Clarke -
There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented.
Henry David Thoreau -
The mind passes in an instant from east to west; and all the great incorporeal things resemble these very closely in speed.
Leonardo da Vinci
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I'd always been the confident guy in school. I was good in math and English, but I was still shy. I couldn't get up and speak in front of people. I was asked to do it when I was 10 years old and I burst out crying.
Chris Vance -
What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.
Cara Delevingne -
You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?
Bram Stoker -
Fighting Manny Pacquiao in the future - there's possibilities it could happen. But whatever happens in the future happens in the future.
Canelo Alvarez -
I am a great believer in having the power to end your life and knowing that, in extremis, you can. But I would not want to involve anybody else in my actions if it could imperil them.
Deborah Moggach -
That's the main work that I've done in my life - really wanting to get past that gender trap where there's a certain nudity in poetry. It's not about showing my soul, it's about observations.
Emily Haines Broken Social Scene