Alphonse Allais Quotes
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The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.
Floyd Abrams -
Working manually is not considered bad in the U.S.
Manoj Bhargava -
I remember taking my mom and dad to the premiere of 'The Inbetweeners Movie' and being really nervous. My mom was like, 'Laura, don't worry: I've watched all of the first series of the TV show, so I understand what this is going to be like.'
Laura Haddock -
If your boss asks you why you're comin' in late, you say it's 'cause you stayed late.
J. B. Smoove -
Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.
Saffron Burrows
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Music was the only voice of cinema for a very long time before we had sound; it's organically linked to cinema itself.
Xavier Dolan -
My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.
Jack Dee -
One experiments and has to choose always the best results.
Karlheinz Stockhausen -
Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
Sam Levenson -
When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.
Umberto Eco -
Any agreement with the Palestinian people must preserve Israel's identity as a Jewish state, with secure, recognized and defensible borders. Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided.
Barack Obama
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I am a poor man from a poor country, so I have to be entertaining every second.
Nam June Paik -
We are like figures which some great demonstrator draws upon the blackboard of Time. A problem is to be solved, without doubt; what the problem is, we, the figures, cannot know and do not need to know; all we know is that sooner or later we shall be sponged off the board and other figures take our places, and the demonstration go on.
John Burroughs -
It is a fact not to be disputed, that the aristocracy have not 'progressed ' in proportion to the other classes. A young nobleman of the present day has not a better education than his ancestor in the time of Elizabeth.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon -
Time found our tired love sleeping,And kissed away his breath;But what should we do weeping,Though light love sleep to death?We have drained his lips at leisure,Till there's not left to drainA single sob of pleasure,A single pulse of pain.
Algernon Charles Swinburne -
Shooting stuff on horseback is more complicated and time consuming than anything else.
Mark Addy -
Oklahoma City's not real small; it's got a good amount of the people.
Blake Griffin
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Like all girls, when I was growing up, I always worried about this bit of me being too fat or that bit. But I look back at pictures of me when I was young, and I was thin and gorgeous.
Jennifer Saunders -
There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.
Ted Nugent -
Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?
Mary Oliver -
Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
Jack Gleeson -
Ruth, incidentally, was only the third or fourth donor I got to choose.
Kazuo Ishiguro -
Première communion de jeunes filles chlorotiques par un temps de neige.
Alphonse Allais