Louis Jordan Quotes
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
Edmonia Lewis -
Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
Pankaj Mishra -
I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
Rahul Dravid -
When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
Barry Levinson -
One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
Salman Rushdie -
At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
Patrick Modiano
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We just feel like history repeats itself. You ain't never going to see nothing brand new; you're only going to see when records are broken. And we're here to just set records and set trends and follow the footsteps that have been shown to us.
Quavo Migos -
I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
Ted McGinley -
Every free day, every weekend, I am in a recording session. I'm very lucky to have such supportive people around me.
Sabrina Carpenter -
I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.
Damon Lindelof -
If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.
Jackie Mason -
I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and over and forgetting your line halfway through.
Idris Elba
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I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.
Tatiana Maslany -
I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.
Lasse Hallstrom -
It's because I have no sense of shame that I'm always willing to give things a go: I've ridden horses naked into the sea, I've climbed rocks, all kinds of things.
Abbey Lee Kershaw -
I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
(intro) Well, here we go. This is the first book I've written since 1975, when I was in the 7th grade and wrote Boogers Are Good Eatin'. (p. 1).
Larry the Cable Guy -
The referendum of 5th July will stay in history as a unique moment when a small European nation rose up against debt-bondage...
Yanis Varoufakis
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If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb.
William Shakespeare -
I think it's a fallacy that only people in elected office can come up with solutions that solve our problems. I just think maybe there's a different paradigm.
Benjamin Carson -
If an important decision is to be made, they the Persians discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house where the discussion was held submits their decision for reconsideration when they are sober. If they still approve it, it is adopted; if not, it is abandoned. Conversely, any decision they make when they are sober, is reconsidered afterwards when they are drunk.
Herodotus -
The history of the world begins with a seed. The seed is the kernel of what you are, but it is also the promise of what you can become.
Kate Elliott -
What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You Gonna Get Drunk Again)
Louis Jordan