Les Baxter Quotes
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The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
B. F. Skinner -
I've been training quite hard.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
When an actress is younger, she likes to lower her age, but when she is older, she likes to add to her years.
Katharine Cornell -
The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that's wrong.
Naftali Bennett -
The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.
Sam Kean -
It's cool cause my sister is older than me and we went to the same high school, so by the time I got to high school, I got the lowdown on all the teachers and everything.
Zooey Deschanel
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I definitely wouldn't shy away from doing another action based project, but I feel like my forte is more like playing real, ordinary people. I'm a girl's girl.
Rachael Taylor -
My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel.
Edie Brickell -
I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.
Vincent Cassel -
Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
E. O. Wilson -
Being a black woman, I've often felt I've been judged by my sex and my race, and I have always known that it shouldn't hamper me.
Halle Berry -
Having a period of - well, austerity, shall we say - certainly humbles you.
Zaha Hadid
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Back in my 20s, I was playing poker to avoid living. I wasn’t very satisfied with life. I used to play in a big game in Archway. And we’d play as much as we possibly could and for as much money as we had, and that went on for a couple of years.
Patrick Marber -
I never write when I'm drunk. Why should one need aids? The Muse is a high-spirited girl who doesn't like to be brutally or coarsely wooed. And she doesn't like slavish devotion - then she lies.
W. H. Auden -
What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
Larry Wall -
Livia, nostri coniugii memor vive, ac vale!
Augustus -
It could never happen in Denmark, Danish people are much more calm than those further south.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen -
Not if the butcher had become a butcher simply in order to have a chance of murdering the baker. One must always look one step behind, my friend.
Agatha Christie
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First off, the crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.
Peter DeFazio -
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.
Thomas A. Edison -
One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
Larry Wilmore -
I've been down there 6 times and there's nothing like Brazilian percussion.
Les Baxter