Angela Lansbury Quotes

I had the ability, but I didn't have the name. They could have built me, which is what they did with Deborah Kerr, but I don't think I was quite hot enough in the looks department, quite frankly. I was all talent and no looks.

Angela Lansbury

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• Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.

  

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• I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.

  

  Harrison Ford
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• I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

  

  Beck
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• All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.

  

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• The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.

  

  Adam McKay
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• In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.

  

  Vikram Seth
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• It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.

  

  Adam Clarke
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• We have been shaken by the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Tamir Rice - shaken, but not sufficiently unsettled. We must contextualize those losses, force our neighbors to become so deeply disturbed by what has occurred that they, too, are inspired to act to change the system.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
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• You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

  

  Malcolm X
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• The longer you stand with people, the better it becomes.

  

  Olivier Martinez
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• I don't know many better training grounds than being mayor of San Francisco - those were pretty intense years in terms of reporting and scrutiny.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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• One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.

  

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• As great, everlasting, Adamantine laws Dictate, we must all Complete the cycles Of our existence.

  

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• 'A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.'

  

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• It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum of everything is of mental character. But no one can deny that mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience, and all else is remote inference - inference either intuitive or deliberate.

  

  Arthur Eddington
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• There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

  

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• Zuvörderst nämlich wird eine Regierung nicht Leute besolden, um Dem, was sie durch tausend von ihr angestellte Priester, oder Religionslehrer, von allen Kanzeln verkünden läßt, direkt, oder auch nur indirekt, zu widersprechen. … Daher der Grundsatz improbant secus docentes.

  

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• I don't believe in any particular definition of the afterlife, but I do believe we're spiritual creatures and more than our biology and that energy cannot be destroyed, but can change. I don't know what the afterlife is going to be, but I'm not afraid of it.

  

  Alan Ball
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• Divisionism is a complex system of harmony, an aesthetic rather than a technique.

  

  Paul Signac
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• The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.

  

  Andre Leon Talley
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• When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.

  

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• All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.

  

  David Cassidy
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• If I ever really felt depressed, I would just start putting on all my old records that I played as a kid, because the whole thing that really lifted me then still lifted me during those other times. It was good medicine for me, and it still does that for me when I put something on. Isn't it wonderful that we've got all that good medicine? I think it's got to be all part of our DNA, this mass communication through music. That's what it is. It's got to be, hasn't it? Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn't let me down.

  

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• I had the ability, but I didn't have the name. They could have built me, which is what they did with Deborah Kerr, but I don't think I was quite hot enough in the looks department, quite frankly. I was all talent and no looks.

  

  Angela Lansbury