Kingsley Amis Quotes
Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.Kingsley Amis
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
Earl Weaver -
I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
Magnus Magnusson -
Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
T. Boone Pickens
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I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.
F. Murray Abraham -
I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
Zaha Hadid -
While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
Samuel Dash -
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
Samuel Beckett -
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
H. L. Mencken -
I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
Gabriel Iglesias
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
Sally Mann -
I was tested against the best.
Rafael dos Anjos -
My journey has been that of a character actor.
Harry Carey, Jr. -
I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.
Eartha Kitt -
If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
Hannah Simone -
We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
R. Lee Ermey
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If I was a fashion designer just following trends or designing for celebrities, I would not be fulfilled.
Christian Lacroix -
The world is terrified of joyful women. Make a stand. Be one anyway.
Marianne Williamson -
The aristocracy in the future is not one of wealth or university education, but the aristocracy of the men who have done something for themselves and their fellow men.
Charles M. Schwab -
I have been in schools around the country, and I have written on education for years. Once, I was once doing a profile on Justice William Brennan and I was in his chambers, and Brennan asked, "How do we get the words of the Bill of Rights into the lives of the students?" Well, it is not difficult. You tell them stories.
Nat Hentoff -
I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.
Leonard Maltin -
Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.
Kingsley Amis