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 -
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
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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 -
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
Joanne Rowling
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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 -
I'm not sure my achievements have been 'great.'
Sally Phillips
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'Shake It Up' definitely teaches kids about the importance of reaching for your dreams and setting high goals. It also teaches great lessons about friendship and family.
Zendaya -
At the Bauhaus, Klee exuded a healthy, generative atmosphere – as a great artist and as a lucid, pure human being.
Wassily Kandinsky -
Now, admittedly, Twitter can be entertaining on occasion, as it turns out that 140 characters offers a great chance to be misunderstood - and an even greater chance one will expose his inner troglodyte.
David Harsanyi -
I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?
Philip Johnson -
Appear to know only this,-never to fail nor fall.
Epictetus -
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