Lily Tomlin Quotes
If I had known what it would be like to have it all... I might have been willing to settle for less.Lily Tomlin
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Over the years, I've learned that a sense of humor is the only skill that allows you to turn sucking at life into a career.
Zach Anner -
Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.
Vincent Cassel -
I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
Taslima Nasrin -
I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women don't have to hold down office jobs and instead get in a total snit about who won the longest carrot contest or took first prize for summer chutney in the August fete.
Rachel Johnson -
I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.
Samantha Power
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God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.
Saint Ambrose -
Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it remains the least bad form of government.
Pankaj Mishra -
For an actor to have the chance to go and play something that's far away from yourself, physically and also in terms of personality, character, is so much fun.
Taron Egerton -
As a Jew I think it's really important to come to this place. There is such a tremendous sense of community, tremendous bond for obvious reasons. I don't know if Israelis have a sense of it because they live here, but I love it.
Zach Braff -
I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.
M. C. Escher -
Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women.
Warren Farrell
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We humanitarians, as our name suggests, believe that man has an ethical duty to man. We believe that the value of any system is measured by the consideration given to all human beings, not just to a favored class: and by that standard, our present system is a miserable failure.
Damon Knight -
Sometimes there’s no point in giving up.
Larry Niven -
Torvalds, Linus (2012-06-06). Linus Torvalds - LKML. Retrieved on 2014-10-06.
Linus Torvalds -
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
Hippocrates -
I want to play roles that I'm proud of, that I feel a certain integrity about, and I want to continue to be truthful in the work that I do.
Laz Alonso -
The industrial age was not about craftspeople trading peer to peer. It was about stopping that. You weren't supposed to be a craftsperson, you were supposed to be an employee.
Douglas Rushkoff
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Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a product of nepotism. The doors were open to me. I'd done several movies before I decided what I wanted to do.
Jeff Bridges -
I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element.
Kenneth Branagh -
Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years.
Casey Kasem -
James Fitzjames Stephen
James Stephens -
If I had known what it would be like to have it all... I might have been willing to settle for less.
Lily Tomlin