Lena Horne Quotes
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I write in a small office at home.
Walter Dean Myers -
One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
Yoko Ono -
I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
Mandy Patinkin -
I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
Maggie Rowe -
I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.
Edgar Wright
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I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.
Gallant -
I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
Zach Braff -
I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
Laura Marling -
When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
Kate Bernheimer -
I've always lived a life where people have said, 'Look at him. Who does he think he is?' And who I think I am is someone living life to the brim.
Ed Victor -
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Oscar Wilde
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde -
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
Francine Busby -
I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.
Barry Humphries -
I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.
Quentin Tarantino -
Location work has its charms, and can seem glamorous on the outside, but I think living at home and having the stability of a home life once you've finished work is very underrated!
Saffron Burrows
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Dale Carnegie -
There are some jobs where you think, 'There's no way! This would be too, too good. The universe would love me too much were it to actually happen.'
Caitlin Fitzgerald -
Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world.
Lauren Bacall -
When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right.
J. C. Ryle -
A good hitter has timing. A good pitcher upsets timing.
Warren Spahn -
I found out along the way that they like you a little imperfect.
Lena Horne