Leslie Stephen Quotes
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
Parker Stevenson -
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
D. H. Lawrence -
I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
Uma Thurman -
Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.
Fabrizio Moreira -
I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
Oksana Baiul -
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
Oscar Wilde
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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 -
Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
Landon Donovan -
Our career had a sort of funny shape.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
Walter Pater -
My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.
Natasha Trethewey -
There are too many senior citizens and good residents in Chicago who are sick and tired of having to walk several blocks out of their way when they leave their homes just to avoid the gangs and drug dealers on the street corner.
Rahm Emanuel
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My childhood was appalling.
Taylor Caldwell -
We don't want our players getting hurt.
Gary Bettman -
I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
Hale Irwin -
I think that people are most comfortable when they can put you in a box - and that's very easy to do that when someone can put you in more serious roles. I'm not blaming them for that - it's just up to me to show people what I can do.
Laura Benanti -
If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.
Adam McKay -
I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
Oliver Sacks
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I wouldn't consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It's just not in my scope now. I'd rather stick needles in my eyes.
Sheena Easton -
The 1911 pistol remains the service pistol of choice in the eyes of those who understand the problem. Back when we audited the FBI academy in 1947, I was told that I ought not to use my pistol in their training program because it was not fair. Maybe the first thing one should demand of his sidearm is that it be unfair.
Jeff Cooper -
When the weather changes and hurricanes hit, nobody believes that the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed. It's the same stock market with the same mechanisms and the same people.
Benoit Mandelbrot -
Ἄριστον μὲν ὕδωρ, ὁ δὲ χρυσὸς αἰθόμενον πῦρ ἅτε διαπρέπει νυκτὶ μεγάνορος ἔξοχα πλούτου.
Pindar -
He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.
Leslie Stephen