Yakov Smirnoff Quotes
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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
J. Courtney Sullivan -
If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
Iris Chang -
Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.
Victor Mature -
There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.
Mandy Moore -
Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
Gary Larson -
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
Laura Dern -
I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.
Lady Gaga -
There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
Walead Beshty -
I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
Salman Rushdie -
I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
Dana Torres -
I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
Barbara Bush
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
M.I.A. -
I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
Vijay Sethupathi -
Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
Ted Rall -
There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
Pat Conroy -
The religions that fascinate me and, you know, could possibly tempt me are not the ones that involve faith or belief. They're the ones that offer you the opportunity to know the spirit or deity.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
Adam Cohen
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No, I believe in the good will of the United States' administration.
Bulent Ecevit -
My grandmother loved country music, and she's the one who really got me into country music. She had George Strait tapes, a bunch of them. I remember listening to tapes, taking them out, the covers and the back.
Jon Pardi -
I have no difficulty with career duality!
Kristian Nairn -
I considered acting an opportunity to express emotions-and I took advantage of every opportunity l got. It took me a long time to discover that restraint can be admirable. Restraint, however, does not mean lack of emotion. The thing that irks me is lack of emotion trying to pass for restraint. Lack of emotion is pathological; restraint is civilized.
Leonard Nimoy -
Every person on the earth today lived at one time in heavenly realms. We walked with our Heavenly Father. We knew Him. We heard His voice. We loved Him.
Joseph B. Wirthlin -
When you like something, you find time to do it.
Yakov Smirnoff