Elise M. Boulding Quotes
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
Karen Salmansohn -
Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
Madchen Amick -
I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.
Odette Annable -
I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.
Carine Roitfeld -
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid Bergman -
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!
Ian Ziering -
It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
D. H. Lawrence -
It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
Zadie Smith -
A nonfiction author has to bring a platform with him - radio, a TV show or some kind of recognizable vehicle to help launch them. And the agent is really necessary to represent all of the business interests of the author.
Larry Kirshbaum -
I always thought I was going to be a great poet, and go and live in New York, where the great poets lived - you know, where Whitman had walked the streets.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
Walter Kirn
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It fell into my lap. I grew up doing dance classes. And one day, a film production company contacted my dance school looking for background dancers. I wasn't looking for it. It just happened. And I found myself on set. And that was that.
Maika Monroe -
Many of my early Vines and collaborations were with gay people.
Nash Grier -
The only thing that makes change possible is the idea of developing some kind of institution, because the institutions will survive individuals.
Wadada Leo Smith -
I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands from Redcar, nearly all the way to Hartlepool.
Jane Gardam -
A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness.
Oswald Chambers -
Whenever black women have a point, they're characterized as angry black women, and therefore the thing they're talking about is no longer of importance because they have to deal with them being overly emotional or something. I recognize that people who respond negatively to what I have to say aren't at a place yet where they are able to learn ... And it's exactly what I'm trying to fight.
Amandla Stenberg
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The superior man is not seeking fulfillment through work and woman, because he is already full. For him, work and intimacy are opportunities to give his gifts, and to be vanished in the bliss of giving.
David Deida -
My car broke down just the other day, I called triple A, they came and towed me away!
Jack Roy -
The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I love Chennai and its people. My mother always tells me, 'You should have been born a South Indian!'
Hansika Motwani -
Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Why is it that we are born remembering, and live forgetting?
Elise M. Boulding