Anthony Burgess Quotes
…all heroes and heroines trying to approximate, through barriers of pigmentation, to the Hebraico-Caucasian norm of HollywoodAnthony Burgess
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
Langston Hughes -
Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.
Wendy Davis -
There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
Iris Chang -
I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
Jack Irons Pearl Jam -
I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
Laura Osnes -
It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
Kara Swisher
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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
E. O. Wilson -
To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.
Abbie Cornish -
When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
Barry Eisler -
Daring is not safe against daring men.
Ovid -
I'm not super into sports.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.
W. Averell Harriman
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Straight people are everywhere!
Dan Savage -
We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.
Abdoulaye Wade -
People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel.
Oscar Isaac -
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Walter Lippmann -
Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to use the words 'science fiction,' because science fiction has those horrible connotations of rocket ships and bodacious babes.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
One person cannot be blamed for years of problems as it relates to race in America. This is something that has been with us since the founding of this nation. I mean, we were founded with slaves.
Bernice King
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There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.
C. S. Lewis -
You learn more about yourself in intimate relationships than any other endeavor. I can go do 'King and I' and sing out in front of 1,000-plus people, but trying to open up about something that's bothering me with somebody that I'm in a relationship with? That's the scariest thing.
Conrad Ricamora -
When you feel the need to moan and groan, laugh with woeful recognition and eat flaky pastries. If you hear yourself taking the art of complaining a little too seriously, ask yourself what you're trying to accomplish, exactly.
Amity Gaige -
It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.
Eve Arnold -
…all heroes and heroines trying to approximate, through barriers of pigmentation, to the Hebraico-Caucasian norm of Hollywood
Anthony Burgess