Kate Orff Quotes
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For my own part, I have been wont to converse with poverty; and however disagreeable a companion she may be thought to be by the affluent and luxurious, who were never acquainted with her, I can live happily with her the remainder of my life if I can thereby contribute to the redemption of my country.
Samuel Adams -
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
Barbara Kingsolver -
I don't really see myself as an actor.
Youssou N'Dour -
You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.
Iain McGilchrist -
When I started stand-up, the first thing I did was to take an improv class.
J. B. Smoove
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I learned long ago that the most effective way to compete is to play your own game, and I've been competing with men my whole life.
Carly Fiorina -
When I leaf through Fackel issues of my slave years, I am seized by horror. Anyone released from bondage must feel like this.
Elias Canetti -
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Marie Curie -
'It became like a symbolic thing, to be 'an artist.' After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.'
Ai Weiwei -
Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.
Azar Nafisi -
Being a songwriter, my job is just to write songs for people. I'm not attached to them.
Jason Boyd
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I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.
Cherie Lunghi -
I'm so happy with my family, my career and my friends, and I'd like for them to be here forever, so I guess loss is what scares me the most.
Jared Padalecki -
When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen.
Paul Theroux -
I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.
Marguerite Moreau -
Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in 'Soldier's Girl.'
Lee Pace -
I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.
Elon Musk
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The music for me is paradise. I think it's where God lives.
Dionne Warwick -
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.
Queen Elizabeth II -
My idea of an actor is to be different persons with different roles. Every time a script interests me, I look for interesting characters because I intend to completely transport myself into it. This happens only because I am a very greedy actor. I am not part of the rat race because I am living a dream.
Vidya Balan -
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln -
Thank God for my computer. Sometimes when there is no one to talk to, I talk aloud so that I can get all my thoughts out and try to figure out the issues that I'm having and try, I'm trying to find the answers.
Beyonce Destiny's Child -
My dream is remaking and reforming a more sustainable, more livable, delicious future.
Kate Orff