Laurence Sterne Quotes
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
B. F. Skinner -
Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.
Palaniappan Chidambaram -
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
Immanuel Kant -
The Wii U is pretty cool, and the thing that I'm most intrigued about it is it's the first gaming platform that actually is exploiting the second screen.
Warren Spector -
The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
Carl Paladino -
I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.
E. P. Thompson
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We don't have a war on terror - that's a technique. We didn't have a war on blitzkriegs, and we didn't have a war on surprise attacks.
Foster Friess -
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
Wendell Willkie -
The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
L. Lionel Kendrick -
There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
Earl Campbell
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The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
Samantha Morton -
I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
Carl Barks -
You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.
Ira Glass -
Israel desperately needs peace if it is to come anywhere close to being the 'light unto nations' of Jewish dreams.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. -
I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.
Vanessa Mae -
Going back to my film education, I always have that voice in my head that's always screaming, 'Sell out!' And that's good: you want that, because it keeps you on your toes, and it's important to remember what's actually important.
Damien Chazelle
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.
Bill Pullman -
Things you can get access to, you should never memorize.
Albert Einstein -
Everybody is busy trying to pretend boys and girls are exactly the same nowadays, but that isn’t how I see it. If it makes you feel better, I’ll share everything I know with.
Brandon Mull -
I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren!
Laurence Sterne