Lena Dunham Quotes
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?
Naveen Jain -
Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.
Fidel Castro -
I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
Barry Jenkins -
At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
Cara Delevingne -
I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
Damian Marley
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
Jack Nicklaus -
My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
Laura Mvula -
Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
Idris Elba -
A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
Dan Savage -
Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
Calvin Coolidge -
I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
Tammy Faye Bakker
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I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few.
Tamara Tunie -
'Smart', in American usage, is slicker and sharper than 'intelligent'; faster off the mark and quicker on its feet than deep thought.
Mal Peet -
It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.
Oscar Peterson -
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippmann -
There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.
Jackie Cooper -
You have to enjoy yourself when you go to the movies. People don't want to spend their hard earned money to simply go see a history lesson.
F. Gary Gray
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I have actually led more expeditions to Antarctica than Scott, Amundsen, and Shackleton put together.
Paul Watson -
When I was reading books for 'Seesaw Girl,' I came across several references to the fact that in the 11th and 12th centuries, Korean pottery was considered the finest in the world. I liked that - the idea of a little tiny country being the best at something.
Linda Sue Park -
I love being as bad as possible! You've got to love a bad girl. Look at 'Gone With the Wind,' Scarlett O'Hara - total bad girl, but you love her.
Katie McGrath -
Step 1, you find a girl to love. Step 2, she falls in love with you. Step 3, you kiss and hold her tightly.
Eddie Cochran -
I kind of look like every other girl, walking around.
Lena Dunham