Alan Furst Quotes
For me, Anthony Powell is a religion. I read 'A Dance to the Music of Time' every few years.Alan Furst
Quotes to Explore
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Immanuel Kant -
I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
Zach Galifianakis -
Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
Dan Quinn -
I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
Daniel Barenboim -
I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
Karen Handel -
My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
Dan Gable
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
Kate Christensen -
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
Olga Kurylenko -
When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.
Oscar Robertson -
Because of the way my words get scrutinized, I have to use a level of precision so people don't accuse me of misleading them.
Gary Bettman -
Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
Baba Kalyani -
I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
Taylor Swift
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I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. It has been like having a toothache, without the conscientious dentist having been able to find anything wrong with the tooth or with the person as a whole.
Ingmar Bergman -
If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I drink a gallon of water a day.
Gabrielle Union -
I am ready to fight according to the rules, and I ask for the opportunity to prove myself.
Yingluck Shinawatra -
Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.
Dana Hussein -
The view of Earth is spectacular.
Sally Ride
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The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often financial. That is not the case with the Arab masses.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
When I got a chance, I went back and shared those experiences that were important to me. George Washington High, the campus at San Francisco State, and even back to Emerson Elementary school and Roosevelt Junior High. I was happy to do it, to go back and see if all the same teachers were there.
Johnny Mathis -
That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.
Charles E. Wilson -
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Charles Dudley Warner -
I don't want to do any more movies where I look at it and go, 'Oh, God, gross.
Sean Young -
For me, Anthony Powell is a religion. I read 'A Dance to the Music of Time' every few years.
Alan Furst