Alistair Horne Quotes
In the 17th century, Barbados was regarded in London as 'the brightest jewel in the English crown'.Alistair Horne
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
Walter Salles -
We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
Francesco Guicciardini -
I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
Mandy Moore -
I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.
Ma Jian
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
Ted Turner -
I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.
Hale Irwin -
One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
Rachel Kushner -
A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.
Jack Dorsey -
We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
Eamon de Valera
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In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.
Yasmine Al Masri -
An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
Carl Maria von Weber -
I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
Gail Carson Levine -
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.
Oscar Hammerstein II -
We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers.
Gary Lineker
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'He is a lesser figure than X'-how it pleases an Englishman to say that! Never suspecting what basement that would put him in, a wood louse.
Elias Canetti -
There is something special about the beauty in the unclear, the ambiguity, the in-between that you can't totally recognise.
Alessandro Michele -
If something happened where I couldn't write music anymore, it would kill me. It's not just a job. It's not just a hobby. It's why I get up in the morning.
Hans Zimmer -
Sometimes very small investments can release enormous, infinite potential that exists in all of us.
Jacqueline Novogratz -
In the 17th century, Barbados was regarded in London as 'the brightest jewel in the English crown'.
Alistair Horne