Alistair Cooke Quotes
I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.Alistair Cooke
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
Kareena Kapoor Khan -
You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
Carlos Ghosn -
My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
Wayne Gretzky -
I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
Frances Bay -
Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
Ted Engstrom
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The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.
Vanessa Mae -
It's been tough for me being away from the game.
Saku Koivu -
I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
Barbara Bush -
Feeling tired should almost never be an excuse, because your body has huge reserves of energy. But if you eat badly, stay out late, drink too much, and so on, you'll pay a price on the course.
Hale Irwin -
The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
Madeleine Albright -
Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.
Naveen Jain
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
Imogen Cunningham -
I won't name any names, but I've done a couple of shows where once the pilot got picked up, the creators openly said, 'I have no idea where we're going.'
Natalie Zea -
In the acting community in New York we call 'Law & Order' 'grad school,' because everyone eventually does a 'Law & Order.' My first one was in 1995, which was a year after I got out of school. Matthew Blanchard was the character's name.
Dallas Roberts -
I think when you're telling a story from inside of you that's genuine, people connect with it.
G-Eazy -
When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.
Vidal Sassoon -
I always feel like I want to work with people who raise my game, and I can do the same for them, and we can jump off the cliff together.
Carla Gugino
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It's come at last," she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. When there wasn't enough food in the house you pretended that you weren't hungry so they could have more. In the cold of a winter's night you got up and put your blanket on their bed so they wouldn't be cold. You'd kill anyone who tried to harm them - I tried my best to kill that man in the hallway. Then one sunny day, they walk out in all innocence and they walk right into the grief that you'd give your life to spare them from.
Betty Smith -
I'm just waiting for the day when my songs aren't flying. Because I kind of believe in Murphy's law - if something can go wrong, it eventually will.
Zara Larsson -
As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
Xavier Becerra -
I keep hearing about muthafucking Harry Potter. Who is this muthafucker?
Snoop Dogg -
When love is absent, then there is fear, and in my opinion you should lead your entire life through love.
Lauren London -
I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.
Alistair Cooke