Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.Alexis de Tocqueville
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To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
Octavio Paz -
Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great sport that can have a larger audience and appeal to more people. Sportsmanship is lacking in many other sports that I don't want to name.
Randeep Hooda -
It's great to have female characters that have depth that you can explore instead of being the decoration or the girlfriend or the wife.
Madchen Amick -
One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
Kate Forsyth -
I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
Tahar Rahim -
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
Aaron Sorkin
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
Lars von Trier -
I'll drive down the street, and I'll practice improv. I will sit there at a red light and see two guys talking to each other, and I will just start playing both characters. I can't hear them, but I can see their mouths moving, so I'll just put words in their mouths.
J. B. Smoove -
The gift I have to give to my fellow countrymen and people around the world, the facts are the Muslim community are our gift. They are the fabric of what makes America great.
Mandy Patinkin -
Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road.
Washed Out -
I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
Dana Spiotta -
Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.
P. J. Soles
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
Joanne Rowling -
At the pinnacle of great design are products so gorgeous and lust-worthy that you want to lick them: a Porsche 911, Samsung's Luxia TV, an Eames lounge chair or anything by Loro Piana.
Gary Hamel -
What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.
Ian Hamilton Finlay -
I've worked with a couple of these really cool, great actors like Ted Danson and Glenn Close. They all have their own presence when they walk into a room, and I was excited to see what Tom Selleck's 'space' was going to be like.
Vanessa Ray -
Nothing can stop a great song, so just keep songwriting.
Manika -
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
Ben Jonson -
I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
James Joyce -
Chemistry's a tricky thing, and if I'm not feeling it, I'm not gonna pretend.
Faith Sullivan -
I don't believe our works save us, but I believe they follow us into heaven and bring glory to God.
Max Lucado -
The key here is that we're not going to beat them on commercials: They're always going to have more money than us. So what we have to try to do throughout is just ask people to make sure they vote.
Joe Garcia -
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
Alexis de Tocqueville