Alistair Horne Quotes

Though Barbados has been independent since 1966, its capital, Bridgetown, still has elements of a thriving British colonial port.

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• The want of money is the root of all evil.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Money
  • Want
  • Evil

• I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Time
  • Live
  • War

• I am who I am.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Person

• They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Good
  • Act

• All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • People
  • Life
  • Relationship

• Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • God
  • Important
  • Live

• I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Think
  • Start
  • Lead

• I can't sing, but I'll sing over this chord progression, like, over and over, for however long it takes - sometimes it's, like, two minutes, sometimes it's 20 minutes - until I've found like a hook or something that I'm really happy with. And then, basically, it just like that's my melody, and that's where I start from.

  

  Flume
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Start

• I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • Sound
  • Freak

• Small ideas won't help Illinois' future.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Help
  • Future
  • Small

• I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Me
  • Deal
  • Someone

• It really comes down to being able to inspire others by being comfortable with yourself. You have to show girls that everyone is different; everyone has things they don't like, but they work it and walk the runway.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Work
  • Different
  • Yourself

• What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Great
  • American
  • Dream

• When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Culture
  • Desire
  • Marriage

• I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Personality

• I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • English
  • Understand
  • Learned

• I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Change
  • Accept
  • Willing

• I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Church
  • Christian

• I would drive down in my Volkswagen Jetta to Los Angeles and just audition, audition, audition, audition, and hopefully get something. I did that for two years, and the third year I came down, I auditioned for 'How I Met Your Mother.'

  

  Cobie Smulders
  • Mother

• Most women's races don't pay much at all.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead
  • Women

• I've done a lot of sci-fi, so I was a little hesitant because you get pigeonholed into that genre and world. But at the same time, I love sci-fi because the women are so strong and independent and smart.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• I know there's a consciousness energy that operates completely independent of the physical body you inhabit, that maintains... awareness after the body's gone.

  

  Phoebe Snow
  • Energy
  • Independent

• There are lots of great movies coming out of the U.S. but it's not something I've ever really been interested in. They're great films but I much prefer the smaller independent films, which are more thought provoking and experimental.

  

  Billie Piper
  • Great
  • Independent

• Though Barbados has been independent since 1966, its capital, Bridgetown, still has elements of a thriving British colonial port.

  

  Alistair Horne
  • Independent