Ann Voskamp Quotes
Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.Ann Voskamp
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
M. Stanton Evans -
My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
J. Michael Straczynski -
Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
J. M. G. Le Clezio -
The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
Walter Ulbricht -
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
Orson Welles -
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
Quintilian
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
Zubin Mehta -
I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.
Taraji P. Henson -
I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.
Randy Weber -
Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
Ed Speleers -
Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
Gary Bauer
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I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
Palmer Luckey -
We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
H. Rap Brown -
So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
Uwe Boll -
I had a very modest upbringing.
Balthazar Getty -
As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
Viggo Mortensen -
After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
Yakov Smirnoff
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When I was younger, I didn't like shooting part, because I was more of a writer and didn't like being the center of it all.
Hannes Holm -
If I've been an architect of my own career in any fashion, one thing that I've attempted to do is not get typecast, in order to be able to play all different kind of characters. I think I've done a pretty good job of that over the years.
Ed Harris -
I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage.
Lisa Marie Presley -
I am normally afraid of birds and have never dreamt of any bird in my life.
Ingmar Bergman -
I had a 23 per cent blockage in my micro-arteries. At first the doctors thought I needed a heart transplant, then they said I have microvascular angina, which means I will be on medication for the rest of my life.
Toni Braxton -
Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.
Ann Voskamp