Loudon Wainwright III Quotes
If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what you're talking about.Loudon Wainwright III
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There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.
Jack Black -
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Saint Augustine -
I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
Jack Nicholson -
I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
Gary Sinise -
Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
Earl Nightingale -
True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
Harold Brodkey
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I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.
Kat Graham -
I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
Karen McCarthy -
As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
Samuel Pepys -
Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.
Aaron Levie -
We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
R. D. Laing -
I think it's important that things are flawed.
Kate Bush
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
Osric Chau -
I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
Kate Smith -
There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
Nancy Gibbs -
Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
Gabriele Nanni -
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
Randy Quaid
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Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
Earle Combs -
No actor forgets the times he couldn't get a job. I think everyone doing this operates from that fear. You don't want that momentum to stop when you get it.
Ben Affleck -
Parts that are desexed, matronly – to just put me in a couple of scenes and have me be the older, you know, dead character, is not gonna fly with me.
Patricia Clarkson -
I love to have a band, but dancers are my priority because I really want a show, you know?
Zara Larsson -
If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what you're talking about.
Loudon Wainwright III