Lewis Carroll Quotes
If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics – it does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, so long as there is enough of them.Lewis Carroll
Quotes to Explore
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Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.
Fidel Castro -
To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
Owen Benjamin -
I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.
Ian Rankin -
Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
Lael Brainard -
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
Wendell Phillips -
Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
Gabrielle Union
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I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.
Kat Graham -
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
Ed Koch -
Your reader is interested in a guileless, fresh, first-time-we-talked-about-it way. What a great liberation that is. And teenagers, if you respect them, will follow you a lot further than adults will, without fear of being a genre that they may not like or have been told not to like. They just want a story.
Patrick Ness -
People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
Salma Hayek -
Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early!
Kate Spade -
Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
Eduardo Chillida
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
Natassia Malthe -
If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
Ian McShane -
I went over to shoot for six days. It turned out to be ten days, very nicely so. A little money.
Gavin MacLeod -
When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.
Bebe Neuwirth -
The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.
Imtiaz Ali
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Every vice president since Mondale has lived up on this hill, on the twelve-acre campus of the Naval Observatory in Northwest Washington. It's a pretty house with a wraparound porch and a white turret.
Jeanne Marie Laskas -
I think we're going to be very embarrassed in a few years when we see a lot more women film-makers. People will look back and ask, 'How did it take so long for you to figure this out?'
Phil Lord -
I'm not a flying fan. I can't bear it.
Tamsin Egerton -
I've given you more than I've given anyone else which I probably shouldn't probably say on - on screen, or they'll kidnap and torture him, and we need him.
Joanne Rowling -
Maybe I don't see enough television, but it seems there aren't many shows that are romantic comedies that are an hour long where you're not solving a crime or being a doctor.
Elizabeth Reaser -
If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics – it does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, so long as there is enough of them.
Lewis Carroll