Eve Merriam Quotes
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Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.
Patrick Lencioni -
There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.
Damon Hill -
If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
Adam McKay -
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Edgar Allan Poe -
My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.
Ed Sheeran -
The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was their live stuff 'cause they played two verses, then go off and jam for 20 minutes, come back and do a chorus and end. And I love the live jam stuff, the improvisation.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
Haile Selassie -
Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.
Nancy McKeon -
When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.
Eddie Campbell -
He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.
Madeleine Stowe -
Race, redemption and healing - that's my thing.
Bebe Moore Campbell
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I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'
Baz Luhrmann -
The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
E. Franklin Frazier -
In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
Ziyi Zhang -
It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.
Eberhard Weber -
I'm shocked at being recognized.
Dan Stevens -
Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instead of being mere recipients of care, they are contributors to the lives of their families. They grow gardens to contribute vegetables, they continue to cook and clean.
Dan Buettner
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I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
Maggie Gallagher -
Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.
Pam Gems -
Almost every character I've ever played - and sometimes this is very conscious and sometimes it's not - I need to find what they love.
J. K. Simmons -
If you give people light, they will find their own way.
Dante Alighieri -
Scratch a Jew and you'll find a Wailing Wall.
Eve Merriam