Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

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• All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Good
  • Work
  • Art

• Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Thinking
  • Marriage
  • Now

• The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Nature
  • Past
  • Purpose

• I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Imagination
  • Own
  • Capitalism

• I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Always
  • Loved
  • Fat

• So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Why
  • Law
  • Space

• Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Perfect

• I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Time
  • Father
  • Dad

• When people are like, 'What do you think of this vampire craze?' - well, I don't really feel like it ever ended, personally, 'cause I've always been into them, like 'Underworld.'

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Think
  • You

• But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Up
  • Love
  • Child

• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Work
  • Book
  • Amazing

• I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Life
  • Professional
  • My Life

• Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Religion
  • Islam

• I always think I have a chance, and I always give it all I've got.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Think
  • Always
  • Chance

• Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Camera

• What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Good
  • Society
  • Nothing

• Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Key
  • Obesity
  • Contradictory

• Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.

  

  Bruce Kent
  • Power
  • Present
  • Organization

• Wait a minute, guys, I have always been on your side. I have always spoken for you, always tried to put on a good face for the state of Indiana. All of a sudden, some of you people think I'm a bad guy?

  

  John Mellencamp
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification of our wishes, but never in the encounter with our exigencies.

  

  William Gilmore Simms
  • Wish
  • Failing
  • Encounters

• I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Life
  • Career
  • Moments

• Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Life
  • Humanity
  • Defeat

• I don't wish to go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
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