Leon Battista Alberti Quotes
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
Karl Barth -
There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.
Frances O'Grady -
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
Ignazio Silone -
I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
Yogi Berra -
My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
Pat Gillick -
The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
Gail O'Grady
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
Randeep Hooda -
I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
W. P. Kinsella -
I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
Orlando Bloom -
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
Victor Hugo -
The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand -
Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
Zaha Hadid
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We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.
Warren Christopher -
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
H. G. Wells -
New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
Eddie Huang -
Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.
Uta Hagen -
Small businesses all across this nation are tired of the uncertainty created by Washington.
Sam Graves -
Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.
Eavan Boland
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We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
Jim DeMint -
Since the creation of the United Nations in 1945, over 100 major conflicts around the world have left some 20 million dead.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali -
Too many are not willing to give the Gospel a fair trial. They are too ignorant to speak wisely but not wise enough to speak ignorantly. A man is not a sinner because he is a skeptic; he is a skeptic because he is a sinner.
Vance Havner -
'Princess' is a good word, as is 'girlish', 'pixie-like' and all these other things. I personally find it a bit boring, it's all been done before. The amount of times you read reviews of bands and it's an all-girl four-piece, and they talk about what the women are wearing... you'll never read a review that's like: "Male singer Thom Yorke, who was dressed in a white t-shirt and jeans..." You would never read that about a man.
Lauren Mayberry Chvrches -
I'm a gentleman, call me old fashioned if you want.
Michael Jackson -
Men can do all things if they will.
Leon Battista Alberti