Alcuin Quotes

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

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• I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.

  

  Adam Goldberg
  • Me
  • Known
  • Sure

• No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Matter
  • Street

• I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Guy
  • Cold
  • Battle

• I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Want
  • Number
  • Object

• I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Family
  • Proud
  • Being

• Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Game
  • Team
  • College

• The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • See
  • Safety
  • Research

• My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Country
  • Fun
  • Easy

• Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Simple
  • Church
  • Trump

• I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Book
  • Want
  • Start

• 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
  • Comedy
  • Theatre
  • Doing

• For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Up
  • Me
  • Value

• Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Life
  • May
  • Desire

• Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Religion
  • Modernity

• New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • World
  • America
  • Small

• Different astronauts sleep in different ways.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Different
  • Sleep
  • Astronauts

• People are often disappointed when they meet me because I'm not this giant, flamboyant - you know, I don't wear sequined jackets.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • People

• Caccianli i ciel per non esser men belli,né lo profondo inferno li riceve,ch'alcuna gloria i rei avrebber d'elli.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Men

• Cada um tem a sua vaidade, e a vaidade de cada um é o seu esquecimento de que há outros com alma igual.

  

  Vanity

• I urge younger artists to know that you don't have to be anything you don't want. You can do whatever's comfortable for you. From the music I make, to the things I do in my life, I'm true to my R&B core. I have the capability to make pop records and crossover, but that's not my aim.

  

  Trey Songz
  • Life
  • Music
  • True

• Coming here makes all of us 13 or 14 years old again. It brings back all those memories.

  

  Joe Walsh The Eagles
  • Memories
  • Brings back

• At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

  

  Alcuin
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