Alexander McCall Smith Quotes
The people with the strong, brave exteriors are just as weak and vulnerable as the rest of us. And of course they never admit to their childish practices, their moments of weakness or absurdity, and then the rest of us think that’s how it should be.Alexander McCall Smith
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
Jacki Weaver -
Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.
J. B. Pritzker -
In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
Lance Bass NSYNC -
How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
Taylor Sheridan -
I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
Walter Martin -
Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
Eddie Rickenbacker -
I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
Hanya Yanagihara -
In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
Walter Gilbert -
My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
Jack Black -
I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
Ralph Bakshi -
Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebenezer Scrooge with OCD, Sherlock Holmes with autism, and Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder.
Sam Kean
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
Sam Trammell -
Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
Bai Ling -
I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
Beck -
'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
Harlan Coben -
I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
Gavin Bryars -
As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
Ted Deutch
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I think when you're a tall girl, you feel a little bit like an outcast. You have to go to the back of the photo. You're taller than all the boys. I know I felt more like an outsider. And then as I got older, I just got used to it. I got like, 'I don't date under 6 feet.' That's my policy.
Jessica Williams -
It's not just me. People are in their roles, and they've stayed in them all year.
Bob Wickman -
The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
John Lancaster Spalding -
Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
Larry Craig -
I love to do things like sail and hike, but they don't give me the satisfaction of knowing the potential of something you've learned in the lab.
Craig Mello -
The people with the strong, brave exteriors are just as weak and vulnerable as the rest of us. And of course they never admit to their childish practices, their moments of weakness or absurdity, and then the rest of us think that’s how it should be.
Alexander McCall Smith