Nujood Ali Quotes
Compared to dreams, reality can be truly cruel. But it can also come up with beautiful surprises.Nujood Ali
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
Harmony Korine -
After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
Jack Prelutsky -
One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.
Padma Lakshmi -
I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
Adam Gopnik -
Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
Kate Bosworth -
I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
Ferdinand Marcos
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I'm not a boastful person. I like my actions to speak for me.
Daniel A. D'Aniello -
You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.
Tarsem Singh -
I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
Samantha Shannon -
I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.
Carine Roitfeld -
It's hard to live in a blind and aimless - or dishonest, rather - narrative when somebody in your family is going farther toward - or at least think they are and say they are - their true self.
Gaby Hoffmann -
You can't tell your kids to read if you're just watching television. They have to see you read. And in that respect, I think it's important to walk the walk. It's a wonderful shared time.
Gary Ross
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Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on theory. Knowledge has temporal spread. Information is not knowledge. The world is drowning in information but is slow in acquisition of knowledge. There is no substitute for knowledge.
W. Edwards Deming -
The truth is that I have lived on an even keel. I don't go down, and I don't go up. I believe in living above the line. Above the line is happiness and love, you know. Below the line is all sadness and destruction and unhappiness. And I don't go down below the line for anything.
Agnes Martin -
For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.
Matt Damon -
I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.
David Lynch The Platters -
You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done.
Keith Miller -
It made me feel cooler in real life to know I could be The Rock's daughter.
Alexandra Daddario
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What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one... It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one - which is really the realm of the artist.
Federico Fellini -
Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.
Rita Mae Brown -
I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs the risk of starving or being stoned to death. In these circumstances, a sense of humor is a great help.
Hannah Arendt -
I wanted to let my employees know what will come if they make the wrong choice. They need to worry if Obama gets reelected.
David A. Siegel -
Compared to dreams, reality can be truly cruel. But it can also come up with beautiful surprises.
Nujood Ali