Anna Held Quotes
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
Iris Apfel -
I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2 -
The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
Orison Swett Marden -
Snowden grants that NSA employees by and large believe in their mission and trust the agency to handle the secrets it takes from ordinary people - deliberately, in the case of bulk records collection, and 'incidentally,' when the content of American phone calls and e-mails are swept into NSA systems along with foreign targets.
Barton Gellman -
It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.
Taslima Nasrin
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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
Tcheky Karyo -
As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?
Forest Whitaker -
I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
Nancy Reagan -
Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
Abraham Cahan -
It's always good to play tennis with a better player to bring out the best in you.
Vicki Lawrence -
It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
Gary Sinise
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
Man Ray -
I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.
Ralph Fiennes -
There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).
Daniel Dennett -
Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.
N. K. Jemisin -
The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.
Vince Cable -
I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.
Bailey Chase
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I wouldn't call myself religious. I'm spiritual. Everybody's a bit more so as you get older. I'm a cultural Catholic; it's inescapable, but I think I have to believe.
Garry Hynes -
If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.
David Duchovny -
The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
L. Sprague de Camp -
Anyone that gets to side four is dumber than I am.
Lou Reed -
I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like.
Neil Jordan -
You'll never catch a man if you let him think you are too smart.
Anna Held