George Washington Bethune Quotes
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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
Karl Kraus -
In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.
Saffron Burrows -
If you give the audience what they want when they want how they want it, they won't steal it.
Dana Brunetti -
Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.
Carlos Slim -
People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.
Halima Aden -
If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.
Xun Kuang
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Music leaves such a big impression. I always wondered, 'Man, if I grew up in Nashville, would I be making Country records now?' I honestly feel like Chicago had such a big impact on me.
Kaskade -
A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.
Ramakrishna -
We're not a family. We're the opposite of a family. We're people so lonely that when we're together we make a black hole of loneliness and everything else gets sucked down into it and is never seen again.
Orson Scott Card -
There is a difference between not understanding and being willfully obtuse.
M. K. Hobson -
‘You’re one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It’s a great gift.’
P. G. Wodehouse -
People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.
Kirk Douglas
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Nanosecond precision matters for worldwide communications systems. It matters for navigation by Global Positioning System satellite signals: an error of a billionth of a second means an error of just about a foot, the distance light travels in that time.
James Gleick -
ISIL does something al-Qaida would never imagine: they test people by tasking them.
James Comey -
I want to party in space because I make alien music.
David Guetta -
I would say that normally it is the creative minorities that determine the future, and in this sense, the Catholic Church must understand itself as a creative minority that has a heritage of values that are not things of the past, but a very living and relevant reality.
Pope Benedict XVI -
In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?'
Marisha Pessl -
I feel like if you've done something wrong, then you should keep on apologizing to that person.
Aviva
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I like the things around me to be beautiful and slightly dreamy, with a feeling of worldliness.
Alice Temperley -
There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.
Vikram Patel -
My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.
Caio Fonseca -
The blessed work of helping the world forward, happily does not wait to be done by perfect men.
George Eliot -
Without thee I am all unblessed, and wholly blessed in thee alone.
George Washington Bethune