Ella Leya Quotes
That evening, I played piano for ten thousand barely-out-of-their-teens boys who filled the Kabul stadium. Boys with pimples and crew cuts in oversized military uniforms, holding on to their toy guns. Toy guns that killed. I played as if there was no tomorrow. Because for many of them there wouldn’t be, other than inside a coffin draped with a Soviet flag.Ella Leya
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I get depressed at airports.
Adam Carolla -
There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
Nana Mouskouri -
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
Florence Nightingale -
If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
Oliver St. John -
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.
Orlando Bloom
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The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
Hannah Kent -
If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
Naguib Mahfouz -
Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?
Randall Munroe -
I was put on a pony as a kid at some birthday party when you're all led around.
Victoria Pendleton
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I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.
Fawn Hall -
I view myself as a dealmaker.
Gary Bettman -
Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.
Jackie Chan -
I'm a father and I'm a husband and I care about what's happening on our streets.
Gabriel E. Gomez -
I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.
Taylor Swift -
To establish personal relationships with the people you work with is stupid, because you never know when the winds will change. I try not to get too close to people.
Eric Braeden
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I was interested in psychic things and in spiritualism even as a boy. I'd started doing yoga by the early 1970s.
Dave Davies The Kinks -
I laugh a lot and count my blessings.
Cheryl Ladd -
Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration.
John White Geary -
'H–hup!' said Roo accidentally. 'Roo, dear!' said Kanga reproachfully. 'Was it me?' asked Roo, a little surprised.
A. A. Milne -
That evening, I played piano for ten thousand barely-out-of-their-teens boys who filled the Kabul stadium. Boys with pimples and crew cuts in oversized military uniforms, holding on to their toy guns. Toy guns that killed. I played as if there was no tomorrow. Because for many of them there wouldn’t be, other than inside a coffin draped with a Soviet flag.
Ella Leya