Alan Bennett Quotes
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
Fanny Howe -
The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.
Malcolm de Chazal -
There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
Quico Canseco -
When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
Finn Jones
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When I was younger, I liked money - the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and be like, 'Yeah.' I'd saved £700 by the age of 10. I thought: 'What the hell am I hoarding this for?' So I bought a drum kit.
Cara Delevingne -
All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
Marat Safin -
I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing.
Barry Ritholtz -
I've always wanted to do a boxing movie.
Walter Hill -
My first album was full of ideas and attempts to go in all kinds of directions. I was young. I loved making music, but I didn't have a clear path. I also lacked in confidence.
Yael Naim
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In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.
Carl Sagan -
I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.
Samuel L. Jackson -
I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
Abel Ferrara -
I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.
Macaulay Culkin -
I've always shied away from online data storage. I don't even use my employers' network drives for anything sensitive. I want to control access myself.
Barton Gellman -
Power grows out of Organized Knowledge, but mind you, it grows out of it, through Application and Use.
Napoleon Hill
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14. Just as the sun gives light to the moon this heart bestows the effulgence on the mind.
Ramana Maharshi -
I wouldn't mind meeting some of the people I've attempted to portray from the olden, olden days. They probably would all have really terrible skin and horrible bad breath, and I'd have to give them an Altoid.
Geoffrey Rush -
The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.
Al Ries -
In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.
Len Wein -
I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
Alan Bennett