Louis Zamperini Quotes
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
Laura Robson -
Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
Zaha Hadid -
I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
Adam Jones -
I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.
Dakota Johnson -
I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned at least the right to relax.
Eddie Murphy
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The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
Daisaku Ikeda -
One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
Carla Bley -
I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.
Rachel Zoe -
Obviously, there's more to aesthetic appearance than just race, but that is going to be the first thing that someone notices when they look at a picture.
Sam Yagan -
'There’s nothing to fear, Lebannen,' he said gently, mockingly. 'They were only the dead.'
Ursula K. Le Guin -
So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war,There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Walter Scott
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The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has ever lived - Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.
Jacob Bronowski -
Without interest (hers not the type to wonder why!) but with perfect efficiently, Miss Lemon had fulfilled her task.
Agatha Christie -
He can neither read nor write and in him already there broods a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man.
Cormac McCarthy -
Besides what have poets, in any case, to do with sin? They must dance before the Ark of the Covenant or die! But what am I trying to say?
Anna Akhmatova -
I know nothing, I am neither woman nor girl; I have been living in a dream and when someone kissed me, it made me want to laugh. Now I am here before you, it seems as though I have just awakened and it is morning.
Jean-Paul Sartre -
To spend time in Silicon Valley in a year of political upheaval is, on one level, soothing. It is pleasant to hear talk of wearables, walled gardens, and disruptive beverages in between updates about mass deportation.
Anand Giridharadas
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If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would have women participate in all human rights, especially those of the mind.
Emilie du Chatelet -
I've been doing it since I was prepubescent when I loved to scratch records and play good music. As it happens, you know I sort of fell into the mix. I really feel like I played a role in bringing dance music to America years ago.
Alain Macklovitch -
Never lose perspective on where you are and what you've got. And how you got it.
Rob Halford Judas Priest -
'Gold,' says the Consul, knowing that this is the only syllable that has held its power over the ages.
Dan Simmons -
I was a rotten kid. My excitement came from seeing what I could get away with.
Louis Zamperini