Alistair MacLeod Quotes
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
Pat Cadigan -
One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
Eduardo Chillida -
I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.
Tavi Gevinson -
When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'
Damian Lewis -
If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
F. Lee Bailey -
I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
Rachel Nichols
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I never met a stripe I didn't like.
Edgardo Osorio -
I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
Sam Shepard -
Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
Olympia Brown -
To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
Rand Paul -
It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
Abraham Lincoln
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
Pat Paulsen -
I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.
Ranbir Kapoor -
I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
Rachel Roy -
I am fortunate to have only worn one shirt in my career. It is something that is fundamental to me. It is something I have always wanted: to be one of these few who wear only one shirt - a fan and a player of the same team.
Francesco Totti -
Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
Samuel Pepys -
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
Mahatma Gandhi
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You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.
Ashley Smith -
The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past, nor the shadow of the future.
Hermann Hesse -
It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.
Colin Hay Men at Work -
I was in Mauritius, shooting for 'Break Ke Baad,' and I went for skydiving. It was a life-changing experience. Travelling, dancing, and reading are my other pastimes.
Deepika Padukone -
All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
John Stuart Mill -
I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.
Alistair MacLeod