William Ross Wallace Quotes
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
J. G. Ballard -
So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
Jackie Cooper -
I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hearing a voice', or, 'The characters came to life'. I am filled with loathing for my own characters when I hear that because they do nothing of the sort. Left to their own devices, they do nothing but drink coffee and complain about their lives.
Karen Joy Fowler -
For new bands, I think a major label is the safest place to be. Independent labels are the ones getting away with murder. A lot of them are hobbyists who rip-off young bands, taking advantage of people who would never get signed to a major.
Jack White The White Stripes -
Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.
Ulysses S. Grant -
When I said, 'I feel like everything I tried to do is there', it is less because of what I did than it is a case of Michael keeping his word. Sometimes he'd launch into a discourse, a convoluted discourse about something or other, and I had no idea what he was saying. I'd tease him about it, 'What on earth are you talking about?'
Madeleine Stowe
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Despite the unquestionable greatness of the Anglo-Saxon genius, it is impossible not to see that the laws of revolutions are least understood precisely in the Anglo-Saxon countries.
Leon Trotsky -
For so long Versace couture was identified with celebrities and music, which I love. But at the same time it could overwhelm the clothes.
Donatella Versace -
I was completely shocked that Prince would even know my name.
Rita Ora -
The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.
Bill Klem -
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.
Chanakya -
One thing my mom taught me was that when you're making deviled eggs, flip the eggs over the night before. They've been sitting in the carton as they're transported, so the yolks settle on bottom. If you flip them, then the yolks aren't skewed to one side.
Trisha Yearwood
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I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.
Jesse Ventura -
My students are noticed by the people I respect from the quality of their work.
Louise Wilson -
I sort of have stepped out of the public eye, and it's actually been really refreshing.
Kristin Cavallari -
I disoriented myself from everything about being a human being and just played and played and played and sang and sang and sang.
Jeff Buckley -
I've got guns now. It's kind of gross.
Emily Blunt -
'In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.
Bobbie Ann Mason
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Personally, I'm not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats.
Daniel H. Wilson -
In 1940, then-Senator Harry Truman headed up a Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program. In the course of World War II, more than $15 billion in unnecessary and fraudulent defense spending was identified.
Bernie Sanders -
As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.
Walter Dean Myers -
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde -
All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful.
Ian Fleming -
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
William Ross Wallace