Germaine Greer Quotes
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I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.
Oscar Isaac -
My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
Natasha Trethewey -
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
Rachel Johnson -
I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.
Patricia Highsmith -
A new era of responsibility is here.
Valerie Jarrett -
Somewhere, in some city in America, someone is wearing my clothes, and I'm happy with that.
Raf Simons
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The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.
Nathaniel Parker Willis -
I have 18 cars, but I never had a Rolls-Royce.
Ion Tiriac -
If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.
Daniel Cormier -
At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.
Tanith Lee -
I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once.
Ian Somerhalder -
Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
Kate Williams
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When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.
Tamara Mellon -
All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
I. F. Stone -
Metal music is the only art form that is totally dependent for its success on the idea that idiots buy cheap trash are getting ripped off.
Manfred Mann -
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement.
Elbert Hubbard -
I experienced bullying a lot. I was an only child, and I was kind of a small kid with a big mouth, and so I always got myself in trouble.
Mark Foster Foster the People -
I have these ideas that people go 'Oh, that's cool. I'd pay to see it, but I'm not gonna give you $25 million.'
Mark Romanek
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And all I wanna do is let it be and be with you and watch the wind blow by.And all I wanna see is you and me go on forever like the clear blue sky.Slowly, there's only you and I.And all I wanna do is watch the wind blow by.
Tim McGraw -
So, regarding the time frame, I'm only too willing to admit that my crystal ball, like everybody else's, is cracked. If I could predict precisely, I would have started predicting the stock market and would now be living with a bunch of young women on Bora Bora, having bought it.
Paul R. Ehrlich -
There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk.
Maggie Smith -
I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.
Jackson Browne -
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
Germaine Greer