Lin Yutang Quotes
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
A. E. van Vogt -
If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
Abba Eban -
I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
Usain Bolt -
I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
Nate Diaz -
When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
Dane Cook -
The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
Rafael Nadal
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PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.
Ingrid Newkirk -
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
Gaston Bachelard -
It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
Mandy Moore -
You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.
Lady Gaga -
I certainly think it's really important that folks in the metropolitan area be able to meet the increased cost of living.
Kate Brown
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I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.
Yuri Milner -
When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire.
Gary Lineker -
Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.
Octavia Spencer -
Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
J. Paul Getty -
Giving children a fair chance to achieve their dreams and reach their potential is everyone's responsibility.
Randi Weingarten -
You don't necessarily need a script or actors to tell a compelling tale. Finding a person at a key moment in his life and rendering the truth as you see it - that's the truest form of drama.
D. A. Pennebaker
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History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul.
Andrei Tarkovsky -
School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope.
Albert Shanker -
I think it's important for people to always understand what is the context is in what is being said, because that obviously determines what folks are talking about.
Roland Martin -
I wasn't the prettiest girl in class. No breasts, short legs, gangly teeth. I didn't think I was model material, that's for sure.
Kate Moss -
Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.
Albert Camus -
When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.
Lin Yutang