Lily Tomlin Quotes
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You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.
Victoria Pendleton -
I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.
Callan McAuliffe -
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
Edmund Burke -
Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
Kate Christensen -
Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
Saint Basil -
People want to come to Pakistan but are not given visas. We wish for visas to be given to those people who want to come to Pakistan.
Samina Baig
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Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.
Samantha Stosur -
The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
Tania Raymonde -
I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
Walter Cronkite -
Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.
Hamza Yusuf -
Rey's parents left her at 5, and we meet her when she's late teens or early 20s, and for someone to keep hopeful that there's a better life to come, I think, is astounding. Though she starts off alone, she very much finds her place in a group of people, and that's lovely.
Daisy Ridley -
If we were to inspect ourselves or members of our family and our friends, we would see that we don't really have to go all the way overseas to be mystified - we can be mystified right at home.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I'm going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what I've learned in my second chance of life and pass it on to people in their first chance of life.
J. R. Martinez -
They wouldn't let me into Germany from 1998-2000 because I bumped into the chancellor's daughter on my skateboard.
Patrick Carman -
The chance to work on Broadway choreography as opposed to having to deliver Broadway choreography can be two distinct things.
Damian Woetzel -
I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah, I did a soap.' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret society.
Nathan Fillion -
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
W. Somerset Maugham -
And is there care in Heaven? And is there love In heavenly spirits to these Creatures bace?
Edmund Spenser
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High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.
Walter O'Brien -
I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an audience of 1,000 people.
Jasmine Lucilla Elizabeth Jennifer van den Bogaerde -
I'm ashamed I didn't change my behavior until I was forced to do so by circumstance and by others. The reality is, I was stopped from further bad actions by those who spoke up about my offenses, at substantial risk to their personal and professional reputations... and subsequently, by Christine and others on the 500 team.
Dave McClure -
Deciding to not attach ourselves to something that doesn't appropriately represent us is extremely powerful.
Omari Hardwick -
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Lewis Carroll -
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it....
Lily Tomlin