William Wendt Quotes
I would dearly love to take up the brush again, but I realize that I am an C man and that I cannot set the world afire.William Wendt
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
Abbe Pierre -
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
Wendell Phillips -
It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.
Abraham Lincoln -
The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
Fiona Apple -
I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.
Cameron Monaghan -
I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
Zac Efron
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I'm bigger now than when I was eating meat. My lifts in the gym are better. I'm in better shape.
Daniel Bryan -
I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
Larry Elder -
It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
Jack Lemmon -
I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.
Frances Farmer
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Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.
Karen Salmansohn -
If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote. It is important for oligarchs to have elections to give their guy a veneer of legitimacy - and important for the vote always to turn out 'their way.'
Naomi Wolf -
I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn't do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.
Dalai Lama -
Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever.
Zadie Smith -
Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.
Daniel Berrigan -
A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.
S. Ansky
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My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.
J. G. Ballard -
We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.
Farley Mowat -
When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
Nadia Comaneci -
Rey's parents left her at 5, and we meet her when she's late teens or early 20s, and for someone to keep hopeful that there's a better life to come, I think, is astounding. Though she starts off alone, she very much finds her place in a group of people, and that's lovely.
Daisy Ridley -
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
Calvin Coolidge -
I would dearly love to take up the brush again, but I realize that I am an C man and that I cannot set the world afire.
William Wendt