Alex Kingston Quotes
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
Barton Gellman -
I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair -
My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.
Kate Micucci -
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Dale Carnegie -
We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
Ted Deutch -
You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.
Randy Travis
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
Orson Welles -
A kind of racism still exists in the United States, and Islamophobia is a more convenient way to express that sentiment. There has also been an attempt to paint Muslims as enemies of the United States.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.
Harold E. Varmus -
As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.
J. B. Priestley -
As more and more minority groups fill our nation's classrooms, what can we do to even the separate-but-forever-unequal playing field? Now that's a question many very smart people have spent decades trying to answer.
Laura Moser
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After school, I got a job in a shop in Hollywood and shared an apartment with a friend. I promptly lost my job and got evicted from my apartment, and that happened several times.
Patrick deWitt -
I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'
Laura Riding -
Every season I am inspired by women.
Oscar de la Renta -
A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom - he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
E. B. White -
But search the land of living men,Where wilt thou find their like again?
Walter Scott -
The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.
Edmund Hillary
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much stuff you make up just to keep yourself from going crazy.
Brian Andreas -
It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.
William Blake -
My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow.
Colleen McCullough -
When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail. When the preponderance of human beings choose power, greed, and indifference to suffering, the world is filled with war, poverty, and cruelty.
Mary Doria Russell -
Interviews usually upset me in one way or another.
Alex Kingston