Georgia Harkness Quotes
Religion is perhaps its own worst enemy. For religion, masquerading under the guise of archaic creeds, and impossible literalisms, and ecclesiasticism indifferent to human needs, has brought about an inevitable and in many respects wholesome revulsion.Georgia Harkness
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There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
Famke Janssen -
Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
Ian Anderson -
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel Johnson -
I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
Barack Obama -
A well-conceived product excels at what it does. It's close to being functionally flawless - like a Ziploc bag, a radio from Tivoli Audio, a Philips Sonicare toothbrush, a Nespresso coffee maker or Google's home page.
Gary Hamel -
The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
Ed Speleers
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Orville Wright -
I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
Gary Numan -
I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
Ed Gillespie -
Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
Aaron Allston -
I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
Ornette Coleman -
I'm glad that I just played baseball, because I'm sure I had a much longer baseball career than I would've had a football career. I did miss football, but I didn't miss some of the injuries from football.
Barry Larkin
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We spend our way to the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and iPads. Our children wear nice clothes thanks to high-interest credit cards and payday loans. We purchase homes we don't need, refinance them for more spending money, and declare bankruptcy, often leaving them full of garbage in our wake. Thrift is inimical to our being.
J. D. Vance -
What's really interesting about actors, is that we all have opinions on how people's careers look, but I think you never have any idea of your own, or what other people think of you.
Eddie Redmayne -
My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.
Rachel Joyce -
The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
The owners have the right to pay you whatever they want to. They don't have to pay you if they don't want to.
Gary Sheffield -
Budgets are matters of priority and prioritizing. It's a high priority.
Sam Brownback
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As much as writing is an emotional experience, it is a business as well. Coming from a business background, I treat it as such.
Chevy Stevens -
Common sense is the enemy of Romance.
Oscar Wilde -
No matter how well a band performs, if its songs are a pile of junk, the group might as well not put the effort into it.
Steve Clark Def Leppard -
Religion is perhaps its own worst enemy. For religion, masquerading under the guise of archaic creeds, and impossible literalisms, and ecclesiasticism indifferent to human needs, has brought about an inevitable and in many respects wholesome revulsion.
Georgia Harkness