Lauren Bacall Quotes
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Nobody wants to give up good players.
Vince Lombardi -
Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
Malcolm Gladwell -
I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
Salman Rushdie -
The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Dale Carnegie -
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
Zig Ziglar -
Always believe what you see - with your own eyes, that is. Always believe what you see. That's the best way to go about this business. I've heard a lot of things about a lot of people, and it was never true.
R. Kelly
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I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my studio. There are books around me all the time.
Barry McGee -
In order for sensation to accede to the objectivity of things, it must itself be changed into a thing. The agent of change is language: the sensations are turned into verbal objects.
Octavio Paz -
I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'
Samantha Bond -
Lost in much of the national debate about immigration reform is how Democrats ultimately stand to gain electorally with any legislation or executive action that would put the newly legalized residents on a path to voting.
Aaron Klein -
The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
Xavier Niel -
I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things with their lives that they really aren't happy with.
J. Carter Brown
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Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.
J. Michael Straczynski -
I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.
Fra Angelico -
It is difficult to meet fan expectations, especially when people say, 'Oh, the last one was the best one.' It creates more pressure each time for the next game to top the last one.
Yuji Horii -
I really like stuff that is collectible that you can hold and go, 'There's only a few people that have this.' I like to see that someone's put a lot of labor into making something.
Adam Jones -
Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.
Alfred North Whitehead -
Don’t say: 'They must have something in common, or they would not be called ‘games’' but look and see whether there is anything common to all. For if you look at them, you won’t see something that is common to all, but similarities, affinities, and a whole series of them at that. To repeat: don’t think, but look!
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.
Matt Bomer -
I'm going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
Billy Crystal -
I wish I could swap closets with Diana Vreeland, but I think only my left thigh would fit into her clothing.
Catherine Martin -
It isn’t that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history’s meaning.
Philip Roth -
Hawthorn, white and odorous with blossom, framing the quiet fields, and swaying flowers and grasses, and the hum of bees.
F.S. Flint -
Isn't hope an incredible, a wonderfully demented thing?
Lauren Bacall