Edith Wharton Quotes
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I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.
Paris Hilton -
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
Barack Obama -
Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
Rand Paul -
Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
Orhan Pamuk -
If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
Laura Linney -
Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
Hale Irwin
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen -
On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
Patrick O'Brian -
I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
Natalie Cole -
A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
Rajneesh -
I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?
Laura Bell Bundy
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Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.
Gary Wright -
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
H. L. Mencken -
It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
Mahavira -
Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.
Naveen Jain -
I've got a fantastic life. I enjoy what I do for a living. I see the blessings; I'm not blind.
Nathan Fillion
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I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances.
Natalie Cole -
It's the bane of existence for anyone in comedy. 'The photograph must be funny!' So the people coordinating the shoot throw rubber chickens at you, 20 at a time. Or put a feathered hat on you. Or give you a clown nose. Of course, all of this makes you depressed, so you wind up looking more like you're promoting A Long Day's Journey Into Night.
Martin Short -
Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
Madeleine Albright -
And all that we built, and all that we breathedAnd all that we spilled or pulled up like weeds Is piled up in back and it burns irrevocablyAnd we spoke up in turns 'til the silence crept over me.
Joanna Newsom -
Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
Edith Wharton