Germaine Greer Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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I actually love shopping in vintage shops. What I do with the high street, I buy it, then keep it for a while and then wear it when everyone's not wearing it. So I do that: stock up, then keep it hidden!
Amber Le Bon -
I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
Viggo Mortensen -
When you have a good idea, the money flows.
Gavin Newsom -
We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
Rachel Cusk -
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
Germaine Greer