Alfred Nobel Quotes
Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.Alfred Nobel
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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
Malcolm X -
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
Samuel Johnson -
If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anybody else, I say do it. If you want to go out and have a romantic, sexy affair, do it.
Florence Henderson -
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
M.I.A. -
When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
Oprah Winfrey
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
Jackson Katz -
As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.
Laura Bell Bundy -
Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.
Pat Brown -
Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females.
Ida Lupino
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Scrawling 'I'm gay' in lipstick on your parents' bedroom mirror may demonstrate a personal signature of the highest style, but is not particularly sensitive to their feelings. Upon hearing me utter those words almost twenty years ago, my own mother did what and self-respecting middle-class mom would do: went directly into a seizure.
Lance Loud -
Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
It strikes me as hubris that Universal will buy EMI. What it will do is create a super-major that will have far too much power... I think when Universal goes up over 40 percent market share, I don't see how reasonable regulators can countenance. It will impact not just labels, but artists and cultural diversity.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr. -
I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice - and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree!
Harold H. Greene -
I don't like cursing in movies. I feel like cursing has become the new hackiness. You try to find substitutions for cursing.
Zach Galifianakis -
From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
Edward Abbey
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I want to give as many Canadians the opportunity to be successful and if we can use their athletic gifts to get them a free degree or a free diploma across the border then I guess I'm doing my job.
Donovan Bailey -
Kenneth Branagh has his stamp all over 'Thor.'
Kevin Feige -
Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.
Oscar Wilde -
Most people don't see half of what's in front of them. Your visual cortex does a shit load of imaging processing before the signal even gets to your brain, whose priorities are still checking the ancestral Savannah for dangerous predators, edible berries and climable trees. That's why a sudden cat in the night can make you jump and some people when distracted, can walk right out in front of a bus. Your brain just isn't interested in those large moving chunks of metal or the static heaps of brightly colored stuff that piles up in drifts around us. Never mind all that, says your brain, it's those silent fur-covered merchants of death you've got to watch out for.
Ben Aaronovitch -
Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
Alfred Nobel