Eleanor Perenyi Quotes
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
Nancy Lopez -
'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.
Yara Shahidi -
You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.
Aaliyah -
We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
Harold Prince -
Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
Kapil Dev
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I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
Walter O'Brien -
When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.
Rahm Emanuel -
When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.
Natalie Cole -
I was brought up in a very rural area on grounds of a castle. It was a working farm, and I even remember the local shepherd wearing his Barbour jacket.
Sam Heughan -
I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.
Kate Brown -
Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.
Bob Dylan
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It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.
Cormac McCarthy -
I'm like Shrek. Shrek's a nice guy, but people keep alienating him, like they did with me in my younger life. I'm very loving and kind and generous - I'm a sweetheart!
CeeLo Green -
Some people are really nice about it. I get Saudi princes and famous people stopping me in L.A. and saying, 'You're Stifler's mom. Can I take a picture with you?' But then you get people like her putting their camera in your face without asking. They think they can do whatever they like.
Jennifer Coolidge -
I was at a picnic, and there were a lot of songwriters. I remember praying, 'God I wish you would give me a song.' About five minutes later, my ears popped, and I saw everybody in slow motion. Nobody knew what I was experiencing.
Andrae Crouch -
Last month, the Iraqi people went to the polls, voting in their first free election in more than 50 years.
John M. McHugh -
We need punk now; we need it more than ever. We need rebellion by youth.
John Cameron Mitchell
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For the love that is purest and sweetestHas a kiss of desire on the lips.
John Boyle O'Reilly -
Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
Seneca the Younger -
I often say after eight years in Washington, I longed for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
Fred Thompson -
Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests.
Albert Camus -
But well-a-day, the gardener careless grew, The maids and fairies both were kept away, And in a drought the caterpillars threw Themselves upon the bud and every spray. God shield the stock! if Heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.
William Browne -
To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment.
Eleanor Perenyi