Alexander McCall Smith Quotes
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
Vicky McClure -
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Walter Scott -
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
Karl Kraus -
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel Johnson -
To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.
Jack Kemp -
We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
Hanya Yanagihara
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
Han Fei -
We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
Wendell Willkie -
Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
Harold Evans -
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Abraham Lincoln -
I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
Dakota Fanning -
I buy when other people are selling.
J. Paul Getty
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My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.
G-Eazy -
My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucille. I squeeze my eyes and open my mouth, raise my eyebrows, cock my head and God knows what else. I look like I'm in torture, when in truth, I'm in ecstasy. I don't do it for show. Every fiber of my being is tingling.
B. B. King -
Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
Vin Scully -
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
Edgar Allan Poe -
I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.
Daniel Boone -
The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.
Abel Ferrara
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I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
Dorothy Leigh Sayers -
When a president makes up law as he goes, no one knows what the law is anymore.
James Lankford -
I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
Fritz Perls -
I thought deeply about this. I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and as we get a little more influence in the world is if we change our core values and start letting it slide, I can't do that. I'd rather quit.
Steve Jobs -
When I was little, one of my father's friends owned a circus. For four absolutely incredible summers, I found myself being the only boy in Ireland who didn't dream of running away with the circus. I was in it!
Ian Beattie -
We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.
Alexander McCall Smith