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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Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality. Ninety-
R. Buckminster Fuller -
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
Quintilian -
I just want to make everybody feel what I'm singing. And just to relate to me and know that this has been dream since I was a little girl. I've worked so hard for this, and I just want them to connect with me.
Pia Toscano -
Police have to have one of the most difficult jobs in society today. But at the same time, I think, a person in that position - their responsibility has to be high as well.
Larry Wilmore -
Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
Doris Lessing -
We are trying to teach literature and literacy in a society which doesn't value it any more.
Paul Thomson Franz Ferdinand