Delarivier Manley Quotes
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If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
Barbara Corcoran -
Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.
Rachel Cusk -
It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
Samuel Johnson -
Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.
Kaskade -
People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind me. I'm like, 'So that's not what I do - that's the other guy.'
Kaskade -
I want to know what people thought and what they wore and what they ate for breakfast.
Sally Watson
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Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.
B. F. Skinner -
Some people look for a certain structure in their lives that they're comfortable with. People who work hard on the road as truckers, people who work hard using their hands. Then there are people who are fortunate enough to have my life, people who play these characters who embody these qualities.
Adam Beach -
Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.
Sam Harris -
I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.
Magic Johnson -
If you don't have good people around you, it's going to be the worst thing for you.
Pablo Sandoval -
I don't get people baring their lives on television. Maybe it makes other people feel better about themselves. Is that what it is? You watch these people making total fools of themselves. It's like there's absolutely no privacy.
Vicki Lawrence
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As an actor, we always want people to write about us and talk about us. And when they are actually writing, then we say, 'Don't write about this.' I am an actor; I am a public property. I don't own myself; public owns me.
Ranbir Kapoor -
I often ask myself, 'Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?' The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way.
Bahman Ghobadi -
I took a break after 'Confessions.' I was real picky. And then I suddenly realized I hadn't worked in a year. And I was sort of, like, not really happy. I think people are happier when they have structure, you know? You realize that as you get older. You have to have rituals and structure.
Sam Rockwell -
Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connexion with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
Margaret Mead -
The closer you are to people, the more you realise what has happened to them.
Jennifer Lynch
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Often for me, if I hear a song I know, it clicks for me and I hear it in a different way and I think, "I could sing that song. I've got something to say about that song. Wanting to connect with an audience and wanting them to rethink songs; it is actually important to do songs they're familiar with. Also, I love those songs. In a way, I think I've changed people's perceptions of what a cabaret show like this could be.
Alan Cumming -
Why should it not be the whole function of a word to denote many things?
J. L. Austin -
A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.
Janis Ian -
When I was younger, I used to be a high jumper before I switched to hurdles.
Liu Xiang -
Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
Yevgeny Zamyatin -
One must love people a good deal whom one takes pains to convince or instruct.
Delarivier Manley