Elizabeth Samet Quotes
The allure of military life and its heroic promise seem indestructible, but nothing threatens the romance of war more effectively than war itself.Elizabeth Samet
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I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
Cara Buono -
The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
Ranbir Kapoor -
Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
Yitzhak Navon -
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
Isaac Asimov -
I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
Vera Farmiga -
If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
Maimonides
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TV is starting to become such a collective experience again. People are watching it on their own time, rather than being on a schedule. Netflix offers the easy opportunity to watch as much as you can.
Landon Liboiron -
I am very, very diligent and extremely hard-working.
Lana Parrilla -
I don't mind playing my music live. It's fun. But what my real passion is is writing music.
Flume -
We all have to make choices in life.
Laura Schlessinger -
I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.
Irrfan Khan -
Everybody knows that Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, a young father to be sure: only thirty at the time of the Constitutional Convention and just turned thirty-eight when he left behind his brilliant career as Secretary of the Treasury.
Edmund Morgan
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I am not a man of etiquette, I don't know manners. I simply call a spade a fucking spade, because that's what it is.
Rajneesh -
...any move made in a state of tension will be of more important, and will have more results, than it would have made in a state of eqilibrium. In times of maximum tension this importance will rise to an infinite degree.
Carl von Clausewitz -
Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
Livy -
GQ: 'Who’ll be the first of the Smiths to die?'M: 'Me. I’ll be shot – probably by one of the ex-Smiths.'
Morrissey The Smiths -
I was always a little bit afraid because I found out at a very early age that once you make a record, all the mistakes and all the good things are there for eternity.
Johnny Mathis -
When '12 Years a Slave' got that much attention, everyone started to copy that. That story has to be told, but there are a lot more stories to be told than slavery.
Louis Gossett, Jr.
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When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs.
Rita Ora -
You know how they say, "Find your voice"? That's your voice, in your pajamas. And it doesn't mean that you're going to publish it or print it or people are going to see you in your pajamas. It just means you are going to construct the foundation in your pajamas, in that voice.
Sandra Cisneros -
Voy perdiendo el deseo de lo que busco, buscando lo que deseo.
Antonio Porchia -
I feel accomplished knowing that I'm still the same at heart.
Kiana Tom -
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
Carl von Clausewitz -
The allure of military life and its heroic promise seem indestructible, but nothing threatens the romance of war more effectively than war itself.
Elizabeth Samet