Paul Thomson Quotes
We are trying to teach literature and literacy in a society which doesn't value it any more.Paul Thomson Franz Ferdinand
Quotes to Explore
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
Zoe Kazan -
In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
Warren Buffett -
I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
Rafael Nadal -
Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
Ramez Naam -
Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
Patrick Macnee -
'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.
Oscar Isaac
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I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.
Ed Bradley -
I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
Xander Berkeley -
I quite enjoy cooking. I love cooking for my friends. It's communal, it reminds me of being with family, and it's also a form of therapy; it heals you from the inside out.
Tamron Hall -
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Napoleon Hill -
A pocket square must always - always - be white and a bit wild. If it is too prepared, it is tacky.
Lapo Elkann -
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
Walter Hagen
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
e. e. cummings -
Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the work of U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown and the respectful president of the U.N. General Assembly Vuk Jeremic. I thank them for the leadership they continue to give.
Malala Yousafzai -
My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.
Oscar Wilde -
The double-sun system was relatively poor in comets; there were only a hundred billion of them.
Iain Banks -
Like a steely blade in a silken sheathWe don't see what they're made ofThey shout about love, but when push comes to shoveThey live for the things they're afraid ofAnd the knowledge that they fear is a weapon to be used against them...- The Weapon (Part II of 'Fear') (1982)
Neil Peart Rush
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I don't have a strict diet; I keep it simple. I try to eat fish, meat, veg and carbs - potatoes and rice - but I'll try and pack it in because as I'm burning so much energy. I have to see food as an energy source.
Anthony Joshua -
I had originally done a production called 'The Resistance.' It was one of those underground guerilla things, very low budget. Then Starz and Ghost House ended up picking it up and funding it, and we reshot it.
Katrina Law -
It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
Gao Xingjian -
Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
Adam Ferguson -
The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.
Eavan Boland -
We are trying to teach literature and literacy in a society which doesn't value it any more.
Paul Thomson Franz Ferdinand