Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
... but it's fun being alive, isn't it? I feel as if I'd only got to stretch up my hands to all those stars and catch as many of them as I want to.Elizabeth von Arnim
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Well, you know, in this crazy world of entertainment, I would say if you have a dream, you have to pursue it.
Caprice Bourret -
Let a hundred flowers bloom.
Mao Zedong -
If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more constructive in the world.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I like that in 'Caprica' the virtual world is a new thing. The parents didn't have that growing up. And it's the same thing about the Internet and all the current technology. It didn't exist like it does now for our parents' generation. Kids aren't relating to their parents anymore, and I just find that so honest.
Magda Apanowicz -
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Samuel Butler -
Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.
Sadie Frost
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My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?
Tammy Duckworth -
I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.
Frances McDormand -
A revolution is not a bed of roses.
Fidel Castro -
As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.
Taylor Wilson -
'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
Adam Cohen -
I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.
Irving Azoff
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If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.
Jack Black -
I have been accused of things that I have never done. I have been called a perpetrator of incidents while I was actually a peacemaker. I really don't know why. Yuvraj Singh isn't a party animal; he is just singled out. I don't know why.
Yuvraj Singh -
I work very hard and I'm worth every cent.
Naomi Campbell -
I've studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. It's mainly about daydreaming. And the technique's really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene.
Sam Rockwell -
The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.
Nathan Myhrvold -
The best world is one in which all countries cooperate with one another to kind of meet each other's needs and be partners in the process.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.
Ted Nelson -
It's love that makes the world go round.
W. S. Gilbert -
We're not trying to form a new religion. I think that all the powerful religions are pretty much the same. People like to pretend they are very different, but they are not. They are really about believing in something bigger than yourself, something that's unseen, and about having some faith. That's not such a bad thing to have in the world.
Zal Batmanglij -
When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
... but it's fun being alive, isn't it? I feel as if I'd only got to stretch up my hands to all those stars and catch as many of them as I want to.
Elizabeth von Arnim