Dannie Abse Quotes
I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real poem.Dannie Abse
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
Zubin Mehta -
Produce great men, the rest follows.
Walt Whitman -
I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
Gary Sinise -
People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
Fedor Emelianenko -
I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
Barton Gellman -
By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
Eamon de Valera
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
Fiona Apple -
When I came to MSNBC, its identity as the place for politics was growing.
Tamron Hall -
The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
Iris Chang -
To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
Adam Davidson -
In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
Hack Wilson -
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
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
Rani Mukerji -
I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
Nat King Cole -
To fall suddenly sick when you have never been ill is a hard lesson. If it teaches anything, it teaches you that you must not trust to the thing you know, that it is better to build on shifting sand than the rock which may confound you on the day it shatters.
Tanith Lee -
I will try to keep my homily brief. But be warned - I'm Irish.
Bono U2 -
I'm so hard on myself and a really harsh critic of my work.
Allison Janney -
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
Andre Gide
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When I get real excited, my muscles go into spasm, so they just shake.
Zach Anner -
To me, 'Show Boat' was the first American musical, the first to have the real texture of this country.
George C. Wolfe -
Nothing's ever real until it's real.
George A. Romero -
I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real poem.
Dannie Abse