Gerald Brenan Quotes
We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.Gerald Brenan
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
Karl Liebknecht -
When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
Yo-Yo Ma -
A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
Umera Ahmad -
My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
Manoj Bhargava -
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
Yann Martel -
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
Barbra Streisand
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To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.
Laura Esquivel -
When I see other working actresses that are brown, I get so excited. I get so excited when I see Zoe Kravitz, Janelle Monae, Taraji P. Henson, Ava Duvernay, and all these beautiful women working.
Kat Graham -
No more turkey, but I'd like some more of the bread it ate.
Hank Ketcham -
I don't believe that employers should have access to an employee's private passwords, including Facebook.
Larry Bucshon -
I don't calculate my net worth.
T. S. Kalyanaraman -
Very few males have the confidence to appear vulnerable.
Sally Mann
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They thought I was crazy in Mexico when I said, 'I'm going to Hollywood.' Nobody thought I could make it.
Salma Hayek -
People have paid for content. They always have.
Barry Diller -
The anti-New Deal line is wrong as a matter of economics. F.D.R.'s spending programs did help the economy and created millions of new jobs.
Adam Cohen -
Fundamental to everything the ancient Greeks achieved was their conviction that good for humanity was possible only if men were free, body, mind, and spirit, and if each man limited his own freedom. A good state or work of art or piece of thinking was possible only through the self-mastery of the free individual, self-government.
Edith Hamilton -
It's been a long road and I'm still going strong.
Nate Diaz -
I have a lot of gadgets, remote controls for everything - the curtains, pool cover - it's like The Jetsons!
Lil' Romeo
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Freedom is the world of joy.
Nachman of Breslov -
Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
Kingsley Amis -
How does he do it? How does he master people without bluster or bullying? How does he make people fear him or love him, not in spite of his ruthlessness but because of it?
Orson Scott Card -
Many, I fear, would like glory, who have no wish for grace. They would [want to] have the wages, but not the work; the harvest, but not the labor; the reaping, but not the sowing; the reward, but not the battle. But it may not be.
J. C. Ryle -
We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.
Gerald Brenan