Kingsley Amis Quotes
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig -
I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
Naomie Harris -
I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
Victoria Pratt -
We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
Ramez Naam -
I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
Damon Albarn Gorillaz -
When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.
Sam Kinison
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The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.
Vicente Fox -
The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.
Dan Hill -
I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.
Zinedine Zidane -
I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
Eckhard Pfeiffer -
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
Samuel Butler -
Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.
Yochai Benkler
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In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres.
Hans Frank -
The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything but wits and knowledge, the Arab is generally the better man of the two.
T. E. Lawrence -
If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.
Malcolm Fraser -
I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite -
My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and the actor comes after that. If she likes something that I am wearing, she tells me, and if she doesn't, she still makes it a point to let me know.
Karisma Kapoor -
There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
Taya Kyle
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I think I have good judgment.
Jim Finks -
Hey, every once in awhile the secondary form works better than the original but it's certainly a rarity.
Jaime Hernandez -
There's no financial aspect to stats.
Matt Mullenweg -
Man's need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die of hunger, but without art we die of boredom.
Jean Dubuffet -
I love working out at the gym, especially weight training. Therefore, my personal de-stress mantra is exercising.
Sunidhi Chauhan -
There isn't another other sex. (p. 254)
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