Alexander the Great Quotes
Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.Alexander the Great
Quotes to Explore
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Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.
Gary Ross -
In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
Rand Paul -
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
Walter Scott -
I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
Salma Hayek -
Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
Garry Trudeau -
I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
Patricia Velasquez
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I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
Lady Gaga -
I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
Patrick Rothfuss -
I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
Samantha Shannon -
I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
Kari Matchett -
Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a way. I pitched in and dug at my work until now I am where I am.
Edmonia Lewis
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
Gary Sinise -
I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak.
Zooey Deschanel -
I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
Ted Koppel -
It's always great to visit Taranaki; it's beautiful, and I've caught some great waves there.
Xavier Rudd -
My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
Sam Heughan
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I'd love to see lower spending levels, and in absence of lower spending levels, I'd love to see us reallocate where some of that spending is and really address the entitlements that continue growing.
Jeff Duncan -
Marc Allen is a living example and proof that the magical approach can help us create our ideal life - easily.
Pamala Oslie -
I believe in small government and people taking care of themselves.
Susan Olsen -
Whenever we love or care for anything in our lives we're willing to respond with care and with compassion, but if something that we love or someone we love is threatened, we're also willing to respond with courage.
Eric Greitens -
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.
Alexander the Great