Lord Dunsany Quotes
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
Garrett Dillahunt -
The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
Harrison Birtwistle -
By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
Iain Banks -
When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
Victor LaValle -
We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
Ville Valo HIM -
You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
Maimonides -
I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.
Kara Walker -
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
Jack Kornfield -
Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
Nate Parker -
'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
B. B. King
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I continue to aspire to serve Colombia as president.
Ingrid Betancourt -
I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.
Abraham Lincoln -
Music is something I can't stop. Whether people are going to hear it or not, I'm still going to make music.
Oliver Sim The xx -
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
Ida B. Wells -
I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
Vic Willis
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The task of the educator of young children lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.
Maria Montessori -
A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
Isaac Hayes -
Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.
Martha Gellhorn -
The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth."
Rabindranath Tagore -
The truth is, I am conservative, but socially, I'm very liberal.
Dean Cain -
A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.
Lord Dunsany