Kingsley Amis Quotes
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
Wale -
You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
Parker Posey -
I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
Fiona Apple -
Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
My wife Kris and I enjoy keeping an active lifestyle, so it's hard to imagine what it would be like if breathing problems kept me from participating in the activities I love to do. But that's exactly what happens to many people who develop COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Caitlyn Jenner -
I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too.
Kat Dahlia
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
R. Kelly -
I wasn't an actor. They they take the externals. Here I was, a kid thrown into Hollywood with a brand-new name, starring in motion pictures.
Tab Hunter -
Before I go to bed, I brush my teeth and take off all my makeup. I like to use Neutrogena's makeup remover wipes.
Maddie Ziegler -
What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
Hans Blix -
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
Queen Victoria -
I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
Samantha Bond
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I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for us to have votes, for women to have votes in particular - your vote is your one weapon.
Imelda May -
Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each other's presence.
Malcolm D. Lee -
I haven't seen it this busy since I've been an IndyCar driver. So I think that's a great kind of thing that's happening for the IndyCar Series, in general, right now. But it's an event that I'm very proud to be part of. I love it. I can't wait to come back next year.
Dan Wheldon -
I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little.
Vicente del Bosque -
You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.
Iris Apfel -
For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.
Mahmoud Darwish
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I've never seen 'The Goonies.' I've never seen 'Indiana Jones.' I watched 'UHF' over and over again when I was little, and that was it. I had no time for any other movies. I watched 'Naked Gun,' 'UHF,' and 'Airplane!' over and over.
Eric Andre -
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
Warren Moon -
I don't think LVMH will want to significantly change the strategy of Loro Piana, and I don't think that they would have bought it otherwise.
Pier Luigi Loro Piana -
Even before his detention, my father was fighting many cases. He remained in jail in Multan. He remained in jail in Bannu. But we were not allowed to go see him there. We always saw him in courts. So for me, the courts were a place where you dressed up to see your father. It had a very nice feeling to it.
Asma Jahangir -
There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
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