Alvin Ailey Quotes
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Funny is an attitude.
Flip Wilson -
I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
Tab Hunter -
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips -
In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.
Kate Bosworth -
Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
Nat Wolff -
I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
Nathan Gamble
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
Frances McDormand -
I don't like to direct myself.
Vic Morrow -
My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
Larry Page -
Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
Kate Walsh -
Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
Saint Basil -
The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
Samuel Alexander
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We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.
Rafael Cruz -
The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
Samuel Alexander -
If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
Barbara W. Tuchman -
Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
Vic Fuentes -
Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
Zubin Mehta -
Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
S. E. Hinton
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Some very silly songs can have an almost melancholy feeling when you put it in a different perspective.
Jens Lekman -
We were never a frivolous band; we prided ourselves on having something to say, and I think that's what gives your songs longevity.
Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries -
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
Queen Elizabeth II -
The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality.
Edmund H. North -
In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.
Alvin Ailey