P. D. James Quotes
I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
Cameron Diaz
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
Lance Armstrong
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
Ted Nelson
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
Rachel Field
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It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.
Natan Sharansky
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Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
Kaitlin Olson
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
Adam McKay
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
M. H. Abrams
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When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.
Sam Kinison
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
G. Willow Wilson
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
Kate Clinton
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
Wanda Sykes
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
Garth Hudson
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
Mal Peet
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The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.
Ted Cruz
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
Edna O'Brien
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I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
Eckhard Pfeiffer
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I've always basically done everything that's been offered to me. I'm one of the few actors who enjoy working a lot.
Abhishek Bachchan
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..it was with the utmost reluctance that I found the figure could not serve my purposes.. .But a time came when none of us could use the figure without mutilating it. his quote in 1959, looking back to the 1930's
Mark Rothko
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Every moment is an invitation to live out of your weakness or to live out of your strength.
Marianne Williamson
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The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.
Lucy Powell
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
Owen Wilson
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I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?
P. D. James